Tortoise - Standards
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Artist: TortoiseEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Music Label: Thrill Jockey
Soundtracks:
- Seneca
- Eros
- Benway
- Firefly
- Sixpack
- Eden 2
- Monica
- Blackjack
- Eden 1
- Speakeasy
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Free Music Review: Everyone and their Standards...
Hit: 4 Stars
After buying this album and then reading some of the reviews, I felt compelled to write something.
Some people are so over-analytical and so worried/obsessed with categorizing things that they end up completely missing the true essence of what it is they're disecting. Can't you just listen to music and enjoy it without having to say, oh they're trying to do this and that and this and it doesn't work becuase blah blah blah and it's not like what they did on their last album.
Tortoise has always been a band that experiments with different genres and makes really good, interesting music. I find it amusing that some "fans" of Tortoise would freak out if an album sounds different than the last. That should be expected and desired from a band who has established itelf as a band that combines all sorts of musical styles and comes up with innovative and unique compositions. If you don't like this idea, then why would you listen to Tortoise?
I find this album title to be ironic in that sense. Everyone wants to hold things to standards. I find it interesting, some of the ways in which people criticize music. To me, music is something that should be created freely without STANDARDS.
I, myself, expect each Tortoise album to grow and sound different and incorporate new elements. I would also expect the same from anyone who liked their ST, Millions Now Living, and especially TNT. If you like those albums, Standards is the next step, so keep walking.
Standards Poster
The fourth full length from Tortoise, boldy announces their return following 1998's TNT. The leader's of innovation in a lot of ways, John McEntire and his clan continue with an excellent album. Standard jewel case. 2001 release.Tortoise formed in Chicago in the early 1990s from a pool of musicians most of whom had spent time in bands concerned with aggressive, guitar-centric rock. From the outset their aesthetic was crafted partly in opposition to that. Relying mostly on drums, vibraphone, two basses, keyboards, sparing use of guitar, and being attuned to the many strains of electronic dance music that developed throughout the decade, the ensemble quickly established a distinctive sound that caught a lot of people's attention. But it was a couple of years before their compositional skills caught up with their sonic inventiveness. John McEntire's crucial role in shaping the sound of the last couple of Stereolab records has been mirrored on his own group's records, and by the time TNT was released, they'd put all the pieces together to create a record that lived up to their reputation. And Standards is at least as good if not better. Having made their declaration of independence from rock, the roiling drums and guitar distortion at the start of "Seneca" are as near a return to it as they've made. However, after a couple of minutes they settle into a funky groove with half a dozen short interlocking melodies, and it eventually dissolves into a percussive wash and segues into "Eros," which starts with one of Dan Bitney and John Herndon's signature Steve Reich-ian mallet instrument patterns. There's an effective compositional tension throughout in which particularly abstract electronic passages will suddenly yield to surprisingly pretty melodies before heading back out to space. Those who've followed the band this far are going to be very happy, and anyone who has been hesitant would do well to take the plunge. --Bob Bannister
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