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It's All Around You

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Audio CD (26 Jul 2004)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Thrill Jockey
ASIN: B0001EMW06
Other Editions: Vinyl

Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 58,426 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)
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It's All Around You, the fifth album by Chicago sound alchemists Tortoise, marks a return to the consciously beautiful expeditions through realms of jazz, dub and progressive rock last sailed on 1996's peerless Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Sure, as ever, this remains a band terribly concerned with the more nerdy extremes of studio experimentation and music theory. Time signatures drift with academic intent, silicon laptop whirrs meld inexorably with chiming vibraphone skitter and dubby live rhythms, and John McEntire's production is as fluid and ingenious as ever. But melody is the real key to understanding It's All Around You: it defines everything here, from "The Lithin Stiffs", a mermaid's lullaby of layered My Bloody Valentine styled vocal harmonies and thrumming, ocean-deep basslines to the driving "Salt the Skies", an energetic, live-sounding Faust-style Krautrock homage. With post-rock's star fading, Tortoise no longer sound quite the startlingly inventive force they once did. But It's All Around You is the sound of a band playing to their strengths, crafting scintillating sounds out of cerebral set-ups. Dust off those headphones and prepare to be surprised anew. --Louis Pattison

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'It's All Around You' is the fifth album from American instrumental outfit Tortoise. The band continue in the vain of their previous releases by combining elements of free jazz, post-rock, and ambient electronica.

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5.0 out of 5 stars reaching maturity, 21 Jul 2004

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i am sure that many will be reluctunt to prize this album 5 stars, but after some thought and considering those awfully superficial reviews this great piece of music got from the mag professionals, i will not hesitate to do so.
those are almost 45 minutes of tortoise distilled genius. being a great jazz band in its core, here gives the best taste of the musical forms it has presented through the years, with cuting edge production.
the main complaint by the reviewers is that this time tortoise don't try to push any boundaries,however being jazz they are entitled not to do so through amazing experimentalism but through magnificent reworking of known patterns.
this disc encapsoulates the best produced and best played music of this year. the compositions are economically built and what you here is a potent band reching the most mature phase of their career.

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4.0 out of 5 stars profound post-rock, 3 Aug 2005

By	Filmore Mescalito Holmes "cynical critic or v... (tinymixtapes.com) - See all my reviews

Some pretty profound post-rock from Thrill Jockey's own Tortoise which features some of the most beautiful and poignant art in recent memory. The front cover is an awe inspiring sunset dying over a cascading waterfall and rapids yet overlooking this scene is a yellow helicopter perched next to a luminescent city while the back features a blurred rainforest beneath an overcast sky but blocking most of the sky is a huge projection screen with a better looking skyline beaming out of it. While the liner notes tell a story of life dissatisfaction and miscertainty in the 21st century and the songs are rawly titled, the Tortoise movement isn't exactly taking the route their name would suggest. Instead of going slow and steady, they're heading straight for the main vein. Musically, they try to match the grandiose beauty of their imagery and succeed quite handsomely at it. Bits of the Flaming Lips appear in "Crest," occasional world music and Dark Side Of The Moon sounds appear leaving the mood fairly chilled yet urgent while the inventive guitar effects and production brings me flashes of the unrealized possibilities of Radiohead. Although It's All Around You never reaches the sonic peaks of anything Mogwai have done, the contemplative vibe helps let the obvious anti-advancement juxtapositions set in. This is one to think about, think during, and, well, get!

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