inventory find! jacket corners are rounded from storage, but VINYL IS MINT & SEALED
Everything is in its place here, every shuddering bassline or wheezing synthesizer or ringing vibraphone; every minimalist repetition of a theme, accompanied by subtly changing counterpoint; every pause before the band reworks the theme from a slightly different angle. Everything in its place, all part of a process that goes back in a direct line to Tortoise's self-titled debut of 1994. Certainly, they have matured in a decade of work; the members of the band have grown as musicians, as producers, and as engineers. They've even grown as compilers and sequencers of their material -- the pacing and transitions are masterful during the first four songs, which nearly comprise a suite of unified compositions to rank near their masterpiece "Djed." Second song "The Lithium Stiffs" floats over a bed of wordless harmony vocals while a clipped percussion line segues into an exploratory dub clatter, devolving into chaos just before moving to the aptly titled "Crest," an evocation of cinematic stateliness that goes well beyond anything the usually informal Tortoise has ever recorded
A1 It's All Around You
A2 The Lithium Stiffs
A3 Crest
A4 Stretch (You Are All Right)
A5 Unknown
B1 Dot/Eyes
B2 On The Chin
B3 By Dawn
B4 Five Too Many
B5 Salt The Skies
