Tortoise

An intricate album that unveils bits and fragments slowly and methodically, this album might be the strongest in the group's dead solid catalog. A quiet, sprawling release, TNT also introduces Jeff Parker's slippery guitar work amidst the folds of jazz, dub, electro and finger-picked melodies.

Of all the jam bands that ever provoked dancing in the aisles, Tortoise are the least
interested in a pop song's classic arc of development. A guitarist and a vibraphonist pair up
to play a melody, then just drop it as if stricken catatonic; songs make right turns without
revisiting the abandoned roads. When the beat gets doubled or tripled, don't mistake it for
a crescendo: The payoffs of a Santana or an Allman Brothers Band, let alone a St... More >