2LP - Limited Edition Jalapeno Green Vinyl housed in a Deluxe Gatefold Tip On Sleeve. Includes download code.
TNT, Tortoise’s 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 group’s 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, Tortoise’s 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 album’s 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 Iquazú 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