<p>Association with such a debated term as “post-rock” has made it difficult to hear *Tortoise*’s music for being just music, you know? The modern Chicago legends’ first album in some years needs no external referents, though I’ll toss one out there anyway: sometimes <cite>Beacons of Ancestorship</cite> sometimes puts me in mind of early <strong>Trans Am</strong>, specifically the clean-lined through-a-lens futurisms. Ultimately, this record is classic Tortoise: 11 well-conceived and tightly executed variations on the notions of groove and <cite>vroom,</cite> with lots of unpredictable moves and moods: the sumptuous pan-ethnic soundtrack cool of “The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One” (which lends a sensibility, if not a sound, to the following track, “Minors”) and the massive, builds-to-no-real-resolution “Yinxianghechengqi.” In short: the genre is not “post-rock”—it’s “Tortoise.” (M.L. Thrope)</p>2009-06-24T17:13:34-04:00tortoise-beacons-of-ancestorship7272462Music2009-06-24T17:13:34-04:00Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship2009-06-24T17:15:22-04:00Thrill Jockeyindie, post-rock
Association with such a debated term as "post-rock" has made it difficult to hear *Tortoise*'s music for being just music, you know? The modern Chicago legends' first album in some years needs no external referents, though I'll toss one out there anyway: sometimes ??Beacons of Ancestorship?? sometimes puts me in mind of early *Trans Am*, specifically the clean-lined through-a-lens futurisms. Ultimately, this record is classic Tortoise: 11 well-conceived and tightly executed variations on the notions of groove and ??vroom,?? with lots of unpredictable moves and moods: the sumptuous pan-ethnic soundtrack cool of "The Fall of Seven Diamonds Plus One" (which lends a sensibility, if not a sound, to the following track, "Minors") and the massive, builds-to-no-real-resolution "Yinxianghechengqi." In short: the genre is not "post-rock"--it's "Tortoise." (M.L. Thrope)
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