TORTOISE "Standards" CD
■TORTOISE, 4th album released in 2001. First of all, the opening is startling with its intensely noisy distortion sound. While their previous album, TNT (1998), was recorded, improvised, and constructed in a studio using electrically modified parts, the sessions for this album were held after rehearsals and composition. Although the sounds, tones, and rhythms are manipulated, overall processing is kept to a minimum. Not only the opening, but the album as a whole has a hard and aggressive sound, and although it has a punk feel, it also has a line-up of direct and melodic songs, making it a recommended album for beginners to Tortoise. A masterpiece that thrillingly combines analog and digital, live performance and post-production, technology and emotion.
■Recorded at John McEntire's Soma Electronic Music Studios.
■Track list
- 1. Seneca
- 2. Eros
- 3. Benway
- 4. Firefly
- 5. Six Pack
- 6. Eden 2
- 7. Monica
- 8. Blackjack
- 9. Eden 1
- 10. Speakeasy
- 11. Blackbird *Bonus Track
- 12. Blue Station *Bonus Track