Label: International Anthem Recording year approx.: 2025 UPC/EAN: 0789993995875 »Touch« is the first new album from groundbreaking post-everything icons Tortoise since 2016. With »Touch«, Tortoise band members Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire utilize their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process in which ideas triumph over ego and lead to an abstract force. While there are still excursions into the dark, elegantly gnarled jazz atmosphere that flourished on seminal works such as »Millions Now Living Will Never Die« and »TNT«, »Touch« is perhaps most notable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gestures. Aerodynamically reworked krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all permeated by Tortoise's now-characteristic internal logic—equally seductive and bewildering, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved. Recorded in the three cities of Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, "Touch" is the result of a conscious effort by these five musicians to reconnect, recenter, and revitalize their sound, resulting in what is perhaps the group's most diverse album to date. New product