| Standards | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Tortoise |
| Cover: | Tortoise-standards.jpg |
| Recorded: | 2000 |
| Studio: | Soma Electronic Music Studio, Chicago |
| Label: | Thrill Jockey |
| Producer: | John McEntire[1] |
| Prev Title: | In the Fishtank 5 |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | It's All Around You |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
Standards is the fourth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise.[2] [3] It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2001.[4]
The album was produced using less of the studio manipulation that had been employed on previous records.[5]
The A.V. Club wrote that "the band is poised between capturing a momentary, malleable inspiration and shaping that moment into some timeless anthem, and as always, it chooses to dither and delay, settling for a sometimes pleasant, sometimes maddening, almost always stimulating exploration of atmospherics."[6] Entertainment Weekly called the album "mood music for post-post-moderns, both forward- and backward-looking." Spin deemed it "a cohesion of styles and impulses so tight we might call it originality." The New Zealand Herald called Standards "a neatly intriguing, mish-mash of instrumental rock shot through with lopsided grooves, dreamy drones, not-quite-jazz percussion and vibes, and knob-twiddling electronica rubbing up against a junk-store of old instruments - all of which somehow emerges as an accessible, tuneful, structured affair."[7]
| Chart | Peak position |
|---|---|
| UK Albums (OCC)[9] | 95 |
| US Billboard 200[10] | 200 |
| US Independent Albums (Billboard)[11] | 10 |