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Standards (Tortoise album)

Standards is the fourth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise.[10][11] It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2001.[12]

Production

The album was produced using less of the studio manipulation that had been employed on previous records.[13]

Critical reception

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."[14] Entertainment Weekly called the album "mood music for post-post-moderns, both forward- and backward-looking."[5] Spin deemed it "a cohesion of styles and impulses so tight we might call it originality."[9] 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."[15]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tortoise

Personnel

Sourced from Bandcamp.[16]

Tortoise

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Tortoise Standards". exclaim.ca.
  2. ^ "Standards by Tortoise". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  3. ^ Bush, John. "Standards - Tortoise". AllMusic. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8. MUZE. p. 221.
  5. ^ a b "Album Review: 'Standards'". EW.com.
  6. ^ "Tortoise : Standards | NME". NME. September 12, 2005.
  7. ^ LeMay, Matt (February 20, 2011). "Tortoise: Standards". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  8. ^ "Tortoise: Standards : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. February 5, 2010. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05.
  9. ^ a b "Reviews". SPIN. SPIN Media LLC. April 9, 2001 – via Google Books.
  10. ^ "Tortoise | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  11. ^ Buckley, Peter (February 9, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "Tortoise". Trouser Press. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  13. ^ Kot, Greg (25 February 2001). "TortoiseStandards (Thrill Jockey)Last year, Tortoise served as..." chicagotribune.com.
  14. ^ "Tortoise: Standards". Music. 19 April 2002.
  15. ^ "Tortoise: Standards". NZ Herald.
  16. ^ "Standards | Tortoise". Bandcamp. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  17. ^ "Tortoise". Official Charts Company. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  18. ^ "Tortoise - Chart history - Billboard 200". Billboard. Retrieved April 9, 2017.
  19. ^ "Tortoise - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 9, 2017.

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