Touch (Black Vinyl)

專輯的創作始於Tortoise樂團成員離開芝加哥後，齊聚波特蘭進行錄音。成員們（Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, Jeff Parker, John Herndon, John McEntire）採用集體創作的模式。這種創作過程略帶無政府主義色彩，但又堅定地秉持平等主義，讓思想戰勝自我，最終達到抽象而強勁的境界。John McEntire說道，「完成之後，我們意識到整張專輯貫穿一條主線，而且它與我們之前的作品確實有所不同。」。Tortoise再次創作出真正包容一切、激發無限創意的音樂。

With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.The stylistic diversity is also a reflection of the band's current operating circumstances: With two members now in Los Angeles, another in Portland, and just two remaining in the band's Chicago hometown, their creative process has shifted dramatically from when they lived together in a loft space in the late 1990s, honing their sound over endless hours of collective experimentation.Recorded between the three cities — Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago — Touch is the result of an intentional effort by these five musicians to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps the group’s most diverse release to date.

Tracklist
A1. Vexations
A2. Layered Presence
A3. Works And Days
A4. Elka
A5. Promenade À Deux
B6. Axial Seamount
B7. A Title Comes
B8. Rated OG
B9. Oganesson
B10. Night Gang