Tortoise - Touch NAD 2023 reflective ode "As It Was

reflective ode "As It Was

It's the sound of a great British band hitting a second peak

therapeutic quality

I felt I had to keep things whimsical and that"s not who I am

So Below is anchored by spoken word in Bemba

Tortoise - Touch NAD 2023 reflective ode "As It WasLP International Anthem (2025) US With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living