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Artist:	Tortoise	Record Label:	Thrill Jockey
Release Year:	2004	EAN:	0790377011524
Genre:	Rock/Pop	Format:	Digipack
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Track listing
1. It's All Around You 2. Lithium Stiffs 3. Crest 4. Stretch (You Are All Right) 5. Unknown 6. Dot/Eyes 7. On The Chin 8. By Dawn 9. Five Too Many 10. Salt The Skies
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Number of CDs:	1
Recording type:	Studio
Distributor:	PIAS UK/Sony DADC
Recording mode:	Stereo

Album notes
Tortoise: Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, Jeff Parker.Additional personnel: Kelly Hogan (vocals).Recorded at Soma Electronic Music Studios, Chicago, Illinois.In the second half of the 1990s, Chicago's Tortoise embodied the forward-looking, genre-bending, usually instrumental style that came to be known as post-rock. They've been refining their approach ever since, and IT'S ALL AROUND YOU offers an extremely concise version of the almost-indefinable Tortoise sound. Many of the familiar sonic signposts are here--the jazzy vibes, the polyrhythmic drum patterns, and the Morricone-influenced, heavy-reverb guitar. The overdubbed layers of vocals on "The Lithium Stiffs" are a new development, marking the first time anyone in the band has opened his mouth while the tape was rolling, but, overall, the album's blend of funk grooves, colorful electronics, and jazz-rock harmonies will feel warmly familiar to longtime fans.Perhaps most notable is the fact that Tortoise seems to have honed its compositional chops to their finest point to date, making the melodies and structures of the pieces some of the most fully realized in the group's repertoire. At this point, the band is like a 21st-century equivalent to late-period Weather Report; they've already defined a new combination of jazz, rock, and electronics, and are strutting their stuff as the kings of their stylistic castle.
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3 stars out of 5 - Percussionists John McEntire and Dan Bitney lock into percolating, jazzy grooves with bassist Doug McCombs, and keyboardist John Herndon and guitarist Jeff Parker lay down single-note lines that bristle with angularity.Spin (pp.107-9) - [Parker's] controlled playing, a lean thrum of pocket-lint noise, is a valued commodity in Chicago's avant-jazz underground; on IT'S ALL AROUND YOU, it gives Tortoise their 22nd-century jam-band edge. - Grade: BEntertainment Weekly (4/16/04, p.78) - Subdued, layered rhythms leap from indie-jazz lightness to manic psychedelia, often in the same song... - Rating: B+Mojo (4/04, p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - [T]he sound of a band sticking to its guns....That means rich, miscellaneous percussion from Dan Bitney and Johns McEntire and Herndon, Jeff Parker's always-inventive jazz-meets-surf guitar twang and Doug McCombs's ocean bed-trawling bass.CMJ (4/04, p.46) - [L]ush and intricate... Rolling Stone

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It's All Around You finds Tortoise doing what they do best; building and rebuilding upon melodies and rhythms with their own remarkable touch. Written largely in the studio, It's All Around You was crafted over the course of a full year, and allowed Tortoise the use of John McEntire's Soma Electronic Music Studios (whose clients have included Wilco, Stereolab among others) in serving not just as a state-of-the-art recording facility, but as a compositional tool as well. It took months of continuous writing, recording, tinkering, mixing, and perfecting to bring It's All Around You to it's finalized state. The results of this process are clear in the lush, orchestrated tones, intricate melodies, and densely elaborate rhythms that make It's All Around You Tortoise's most adventurous and thoughtful record to date. These songs build deliberately and consistently, amassing music of great detail; exploring their layers is both exciting and infinitely rewarding.

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