TORTOISE - TOUCH Format:BLACK VINYL part sermon twelve tracks that

part sermon twelve tracks that grapple with love

and one-man studio dreams were not necessarily a choice but the hand that was dealt

with sophisticated arrangements

'Reptilian Brain' introduces a more direct emotional resonance

TORTOISE - TOUCH Format:BLACK VINYL part sermon twelve tracks thatWith 'Touch', the Tortoise bandmembers Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like 'Millions Now Living Will Never Die' and 'TNT',