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Rating: THE REVIEW
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.
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Tortoise's TNT is a richly expressive instrumental album that conveys deep emotions without vocals. The Chicago-based quintet blends genres like jazz, dub, and electronic music to create evocative soundscapes. Tracks evoke memories and feelings tied to nature, childhood, and distant places. The album's nuanced rhythms and subtle musical hints reveal hidden layers on every listen. Praised for its beauty, unity, and masterful musicianship, TNT offers an immersive listening experience.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
Tortoise
Tortoise is an American music group from Chicago, widely associated with post-rock and known for largely instrumental, studio-crafted music blending rock instrumentation with electronics and influences from jazz, dub, krautrock, and ambient.13 Reviews
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No passage seems forced or simply 'disinterested' and the contemplative distance of the listener is functional to capture every nuance.
If in the previous LP post-rock was the end, here it becomes the attained and consolidated means, used to make music and speak through music.
