Tortoise - The Catastrophist (Black Vinyl)

Tortoise - The Catastrophist (Black Vinyl)Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout its revered and influential six album discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. Its a fact that remains true on The Catastrophist, Tortoises first studio album in nearly seven years. And its an album where

Katy Kirby

“Music makes us transcend the feeling of being alienated from or trapped by the world

A multitude of rock music scenes populated the expanse of Los Angeles in 1989: hardcore punk

a brilliant and mind-bending debut album

to try entirely new types of music

“There were big life changes and I was close to boiling over

channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack

but it’s not explicit in my lyrics

Persian funk

from the very first line

it presented and anxious fear that their songs were becoming too easy - both to compose and to listen to

'Banshee Beat' is a quivering waterlogged composition laid out bare