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Tortoise plays tightly arranged instrumental music that moves between dub pulse, jazz touch, rock weight, and electronic detail. Touch leans into long-form pieces with polished dynamics, so the live set is likely to move from patient build-ups to bigger, motorik sections and back again.

More about Tortoise

They’re the Chicago instrumental quintet who helped define the city’s post-rock circuit and kept pulling in dub, minimalism, jazz, and electronica without losing the band identity. Touch, their first new album in nine years, came out on International Anthem and Nonesuch, and the group still works by committee, which is part of why the arrangements stay so exact.

A story

Touch is their first new album since 2016.

Playing

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Labels

Start here

• Touch (2025) · International Anthem / Nonesuch Records
  Current album and live anchor.
• Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) · Thrill Jockey
  Classic Tortoise statement.
• TNT (1998) · Thrill Jockey
  The band’s jazz-dub architecture in full form.

Worked with

• John McEntire band member
• Dan Bitney band member
• John Herndon band member
• Jeff Parker band member

For fans of

Stereolab, Can, The Sea and Cake

Official links

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