WithTouch, 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 likeMillions Now Living Will Never DieandTNT, Touchis perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise’s unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise’s now-signature internal logic equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.

Format / LP
Released / 10/24/2025
Catalogue / NNS-728205
Barcode / 075597895001
Artist / Tortoise
Label / Nonesuch
Genre / Pop / Rock