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Beacons Of Ancestorship

Tortoise

Beacons Of Ancestorship

Label: Thrill Jockey

Genre: Post Rock / Avant Rock

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<p>LP version pressed on limited translucent yellow vinyl packaged in a high gloss LP jacket with high gloss inner sleeve and free download card.</p>
<p>‘Beacons Of Ancestorship’ is Tortoise’s sixth full-length album, and their first release of new material in five years, since 2004’s ‘It’s All Around You’. In the interim, the group also released and toured behind the 2006 career retrospective box set ‘A Lazarus Taxon’, and an album of covers with vocalist Will Oldham by the likes of Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Richard Thompson and The Minutemen, entitled ‘The Brave And The Bold’. Additionally, the individual members have kept busy with various other projects, including but not limited to Exploding Star Orchestra, Bumps, flashlights, and Powerhouse Sound.</p>
<p>A characteristic Tortoise album is one that traverses an encyclopaedia of styles and reference points, a document of where musical intersections and dialogue are occurring at a given moment in time. ‘Beacons Of Ancestorship’ is no different, with nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut-up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. We see these ideas working out in compositions like ‘High Class Slim Came Floatin’ In’, an eight-minute track which playfully references the world of ecstatic rave and dance culture with a curiously<br />ambivalent, multi-part suite overlaid with robotic, machine-sounding melodies that stop and start in several different time signatures before the song’s ultimate resolution; and again in ‘Yinxianghechengqi’, which begins as a straightforward uptempo math-rocker before steadily accelerating into a wall of fuzzy atonal sqwonk.<strong></strong><em></em></p>