![]() By combining intelligent improvisation, rock and jazz instrumentation, detailed arrangements and studio manipulation, Tortoise has come up with a unique formula that other bands (including a plethora of local offshoots) have emulated but rarely equalled. ![]() Critics and fans have always struggled with a way to label Tortoise, generally agreeing on the term "post-rock" (previously and alternatively known as "kraut-rock," because one of the style's progenitors was the German group Can).īut Tortoise is as much post-punk as post-rock, post-electronica or post-anything else, which means that antecedents are probably a poor way to describe it in the first place. That's saying something, given the quality of what the Chicago outfit has put on wax. Tortoise celebrates its fourteenth anniversary this year with this four-disc box set of rarities and live performances, and it's just as strong as any other release the group has put out. ![]()
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