TORTOISE – TNT (2022 Deluxe Repress) – 2LP – Gatefold Jalapeno Green Vinyl

2LP – Limited Edition Jalapeno Green Vinyl housed in aDeluxe Gatefold Tip On Sleeve. Includes download code.

TNT, Tortoises third full-length release, was written and recorded during a 10-month interval in 1997. This longer-than-usual writing / production schedule was purposefully undertaken by the group in the hopes of crafting an expansive, diverse, yet thematically coherent offering.

TNT builds upon the spare, instrumental framework of the groups first, self-titled album, and the extended edits, melodic adventures, and klangfarben of the subsequent full-length release, Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Further to this, Tortoises interest in the possibilities offered by the remixing of tracks was realized within the actual production of TNT; individual elements, sections, or sometimes whole compositions mutate within the albums shifting framework. These techniques were suitably realized, thanks in part to the use of non-linear digital recording and editing methods, the first example of such work for the group.

Tracklist:

A1. TNT
A2. Swung From The Gutters
A3. Ten-Day Interval

B1. I Set My Face To The Hillside
B2. The Equator
B3. A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

C1. The Suspension Bridge At Iquaz Falls
C2. Four-Day Interval
C3. In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, And Beethoven There Were Women And Men

D1. Almost Always Is Nearly Enough
D2. Jetty
D3. Everglade