Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 30 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout ...
Post-rock vets Tortoise released The Catastrophist, their first album in seven years, this past January on Thrill Jockey, and they recently recorded a live-in-studio version of “Shake Hands With ...
Slow and steady wins the race. So it goes in the wide world of indie post-rock. In a music scene action-packed with balls-to-the-wall bands such as The Mars Volta and Battles, Tortoise sets itself ...