Tortoise
TNT

When a song is so complete and profound, accompanying it with a vocal section would mean limiting its infinite expressiveness. Tortoise knows this well, and in this album, they have managed to capture our experienced sensations and the remote places visited, transforming them into music that has never been so intense, intriguing, and evocative. Within the twelve tracks of this Chicago quintet, our most remote memories are hidden; just as all our childhood returns in the background with children's voices in "I Set My Face to the Hillside", "Equator" (one of the most beautiful electronic pieces ever written) is the feeling of infinity that can only be felt at sunset by the sea. And if with "Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls", we seem to be lost in a forest from which we no longer remember the way out, the warmth of "Four-Day Interval" will bring us back to the comfort and security that only our maternal home can provide.
Genres and subgenres blend like the colors of an abstract painting creating a patchwork whose individual constituent elements always give a great sense of unity.
Every sonic suggestion is a delicate hint: the semi-improvised and faintly Floydian jazzy intro, the rhythms at the edge of dub in "Swung From The Gutters", the slight oriental hints for marimba in some tracks, and the semi-hidden Latinness.

An album of absolute beauty, magnificently played, where the ever-enveloping rhythm section will lead us by the hand through our photo album, in which, listen after listen, we will discover hidden pages, shots we no longer remembered, from which new memories of lived emotions will emerge.