Tortoise - TNT - Limited Coloured 2LP

Tortoise - TNT - Limited Coloured 2LP

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Format: New Ltd LP Label: Thrill Jockey Cat. No. THRILL 050 Barcode: 790377005097 Released: 19/08/2022

Limited Jalapeno coloured 2LP

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