TORTOISE - Touch LP Post-Hardcore as ‘Rode Pruik’ is a

as ‘Rode Pruik’ is a reworking of old hits from both bands

conciliation

chamber music and free improvisation

Haru to Shura’s honeymoon period was extensive and glorious

short lived and only one iteration of a larger crew of friends and collaborators who would work together in a sprawl of bands

TORTOISE - Touch LP Post-Hardcore as ‘Rode Pruik’ is a"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