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Tortoise: Getting Up To Speed

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 their elliptical, cuneiform music is growing louder by the day.

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