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That's interesting. |
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How interesting. |
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interesting; tell me more |
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intestines. oops. |
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i have first two songs. excellent. imagine mature, not so angry, more mellow standards type of sound. track 2 has female vocals. wait for more |
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its interesting in that its mellow. they sound like they are getting old. one song has a bunch low analog synth though-which is nice. reminds me more of tnt than standards. but not nearly as good as standards. |
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Name of the album? Tracklist? |
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as far as i know: tortoise: 'its all around you' --------------------------- 1 its all around you 2 the lithium stiffs 3 crest 4 stretch (you are all right) 5 unknown 6 doteyes 7 on the chin 8 by dawn 9 five too many 10 salt the skies ---------------------------- |
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ah, vocals? that might be interesting! =) |
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downloaded this. sounds good. |
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i didnt really like it. sounds too dry for my taste. standards was exactly what i like about them in concentrated form. |
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hah, i can almost agree with that. seriously, this and tnt blow as far as im concerned. nothing has even come CLOSE to standards for me |
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I really, really disliked TNT. I think Standards is okay. Millions Now Living Will Never Die is where it's at! |
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nice site. I really like that "office supplies" painting. if I had the money.. it's my desktop pic now. :) |
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glass museums is prolly one of their finest songsd, i WILL give oyu that |
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why can't anyone appreciate both TNT and Standards? they're both excellent... |
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i abhor the production on tnt. the material is alright, but the production is DEAD. |
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what in specific? the tinky winky electronics that pop-up into the mix every now and then, or just the general sound of the album in general? |
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it sounds very washed out and dry, kinda like the new one. the sounds themselves are very supressed sounding, liek they didnt normalise the tracks or compress them at all. sounds limp. |
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yeah... i can kind of see that at points... there are some spots where they could've let the textures hang out a bit more... but there are some really, really beautiful sunny moments on there that i will always cherish... ultimately, i prefer standards... (which is funny, because it took me a long time to get into standards) |
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like i said, there material has its moments... but that production man... the only track i think the prduction works on is igazu falls, that track KILLS |
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This album is quite great and stuff and I might love it yes. |
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Very good, indeed |
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ooh man that site is still great.. |
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i always thought that tortoise sucked, i bought the album with the US flag on it, i can't even remember what it was called... i gave it one listen and put it aside, not my idea of "good" i found them to be very boring |
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you should try listening to it more than once. |
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I think it is great. Repeat: great |
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Great. |
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yr right horsie, standards was great. ;) |
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your totally right. i'll give it another go tonight after i'm done this my thesis. ;0 |
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LOL at the unit of boredom thing im seeing tortoise tomorrow night with four tet....... (as in.. im going with four tet...... ok no im not) anyways ive never heard anything by tortoise.... i would like to before tomorrow night though whatre some good intro to tortoise songs? |
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well it's official, i have songs from the new tortoise album stuck in my head... so it must be decent at the very least... i'm still not really feelin' the first few tracks, but after that, it picks up quite nicely.... |
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They just got in a load of Thrill Jockey at eMusic. So far they don't have the new Tortoise, but I'm downloading everything else. Why do so many people hate TNT? I think it's really good. Too conventional sounding? |
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HOLY SHIT.. . ok Tibbar you need some new ears by the sounds of it.. . TnT has quite simply the best production youll ever hear.. . and no this is not a matter of opinion (: TnT on cd is a 24bit HDCD if your listening on mp3 Id have more reason to believe you but if youve got the cd and listen on your computer (if your cdrom is hooked up for digital) and have a halfway decent pair of headphones it is the best thing ever.. . TnT is still my favourite Tortoise album though I love them all.. . second being Standards and the new one is growing on me. .. on the new one I find that the track with vocals is actually umong the worst on that album.. . it starts getting really good after track 2. .. |
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it's not about whether the production is "quality hifi" perse, it's a matter of opinion as to whether or not the highly produced feel of the album was the right choice to convey the pieces... i can definitely see where he's coming from in that it does sound a little overly wonky and stiff (what wonky means... i have no clue, but it was the first word that jumped into my head), whereas something like Standards (from the very opening notes) feels a lot more raw, vibrant, energetic, honest, uncontrived, etc. |
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new tortoise album "beacons of ancestorship" leaked. track 1 and 2 are on their myspace - and are i have very good feelings about this one |
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there's a dubstep track on there. well, sorta. |
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first track i pull up is sexual for elizabeth and it is about the best ever. |
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what's dubstep lol after 3 listens: good album. even very good in places - a bit less serious and rigid than "it's all around you" looking at the tracklist i thought "many short tracks, good". but now i think i like the longest tracks best, i.e. 01 and 04. heh |
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someday I will hear it |
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initial thoughts? really like the 1st 20 seconds of Penumbra. The rest of it doesn't really sound hugely exciting to me. . . a pretty straight follow on from their last two albums-all tortoise elements in check. but I'm at the stage where i've probably listened to too much music and have completely ruined my brain so pinch of salt eh? I'd love to catch some of the rockier tunes live. . . |
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Just got back from seeing them play. 2 encores, it was excellent. Beautiful, tight, crisp, loud.. so much better than I expected. Even got to pick up a copy of Standards, a splendid album I'd been meaning to buy for years... Can't vouch for the new album but the tracks they played from it were great. As my cousin pointed out tonight, "it's like metal and easy listening at the same time". |
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yay, if all goes well i'm seeing them live in december ! fantastisch |
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I saw them live once. Really good- hope your performance is as fun as mine was. It was truly cool to see all them glockenspiels and/ or xylophones or whatnot. Also, this woman writing for the Guardian asked me after the gig what the song names were, cos she got given a set list by the band but they only had th first three letters of each song they played, haha! :D Good old cryptic Tortoise. :) I couldn't remember all the song names either, hehe... Where are you seeing them? I wanna see them too! |
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Oh yeah, SOuthbank Centre and at ATP Minehead. Listening to new album on official site. Not massively excited, but Tortoise has never been a band with accessible musics. This will take a while to sink in. I will DL full album soon. |
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i'm gonna see Dam Funk this Sunday |
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wow! hardly any love for TNT at all in here, and yet it's really really good. new album hasn't really clicked, except for track 2. that shit is awesome. |
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I've seen them already, in 2004, that show was immense. I was amazed with the way they could easily exchange instruments, almost from track to track. The other thing was 2 drumsets - perfect idea. I met Dan Bitney earlier that day outside the venue, introduced him to my g/f and handed him a cd-r of my music - with an old email address written on it, lol. I sometimes wonder how much fun they had listening to my old shitty tracks on the tour bus. If, of course, they did. And in December - I hope that they will play for 3 hours and the first hour will be filled with tracks from new album :P Cause I really enjoy it. |
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