Tortoise
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Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die (City Slang EFA 04972)
Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 26 January 1996
THE "POST-rock" conceptualist ensemble from Chicago, Tortoise, do not travel on the fast track. Exhibiting a lofty disregard for conventional song structures, their wholly instrumental ...
Tortoise: Carapace at the gates of dawn
Interview by Caitlin Moran, The Times, 26 January 1996
Tortoise don't write tunes or sing songs. Instead, they make me cry ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 3 February 1996
The new TORTOISE album, with its radical approach to rock, dub, trip hop and avant-Techno, will blow your mind. SIMON REYNOLDS heralds the future ...
Interview by Rob Young, The Wire, March 1996
Depending on your point of view, American group Tortoise are either cutting edge avant rock, or ponderous Prog revivalists. Either way, the buzz generated by ...
Profile and Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 13 April 1996
Like Michaelangelo and his Ninja mates, they're mutant crossover crazies in a half shell! They are Chicago's TORTOISE and, supporting ver 'Lab on their British ...
Tortoise, Flying Saucer Attack: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Melody Maker, 21 September 1996
SOMEWHERE IN the paranoid corners of your mind, there are scientists trying to claim this music as their own. They erect cages of solemn reason ...
Tortoise, Mouse On Mars, Salaryman, Long Fin Killie: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Mike Barnes, The Wire, February 1998
IN 1997 THE toilers on rock's margins buffed their edges, dubbed in some breathing space and inserted enough kitsch samples to bring their experiments closer ...
Review by Stevie Chick, Melody Maker, 7 March 1998
THE PROBLEM with prog rock was that it didn't actually progress anywhere; musical frontierism was merely a smokescreen for some of the most wanky follies ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 1998
Test card music for the Gods. Band at vanguard of American 'post-rock' developments ...
Review and Interview by Mike Barnes, MOJO, March 2001
This time with added tunes! Album number four heralds a return to form for the chameleonic Chicago instrumental collective. ...
Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Times, 20 February 2004
The ever-uncommercial Tortoise ...
Tortoise / Cluster: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, November 2009
CURRENT DEFINITIONS of jazz are clearly somewhat flexible, judging by the avant-rock double bill that closed this year's London Jazz Festival on Sunday night. The ...
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