| Tortoise | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Tortoise |
| Cover: | Tortoise-Tortoise (album cover).jpg |
| Released: | 1994 |
| Recorded: | November 29 - December 5, 1993 |
| Genre: | Post-rock |
| Label: | Thrill Jockey |
| Producer: | Tortoise |
| Next Title: | Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
Tortoise is the debut studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise.[1] It was released in 1994 via Thrill Jockey.
By March 1998, Tortoise had sold 35,000 copies (8,000 LPs and 27,000 CDs).[2]
Trouser Press noted that "the beckoning warmth of the gently shifting rhythms ... make it easy to forget that there's nary a whit of guitar and only the briefest whiff of standard-issue keyboards in play."[3] In his review for AllMusic, Glenn Swan writes that Tortoise "share equal responsibility and trust in each other, pouring out a thick stew of meditative grooves, light production experiments, and rusty guitar-string ambience -- the likes of which have rarely sounded so approachable, but this is not to say the album is a sellout leap into commercialism. There are a couple head scratchers and murky moments that fail to make much of an impact, but the quintet have spun such a rich web of mood and personality that any fall from grace barely changes altitude".
Credits for Tortoise adapted from album liner notes.[4]
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