Okraïna and more

and the underlying sentimentality and dense emotional weight of Slint

13 brilliantly simple and bright bursts of Ohio r'n'r

Of their alchemical and otherworldly creative chemistry

The original pressings are already hard to find

TORTOISE - Touch LP Funk Okraïna and more"Touch" is the first new album from the groundbreaking post everything icons Tortoise since 2016. 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