Touch HD FLAC Album (44.1kHz/24 bit) exclusive

Touch HD FLAC Album (44.1kHz/24 bit) exclusiveOn Touch, Tortoise's first new album since 2016, the groundbreaking group harnesses its collectivist songwriting approach to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps their most diverse release to date. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for the post everything icons' unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Re engineered Krautrock, hand cranked

Van Dyke Parks

and homage to

tinkering with the lyrics and reworking melodies for his chosen instrument: an electric mbira

" Chris Thile says: "we held it out

Sondheim's most ravishing score

with the band’s friend Josh Ritter co-writing lyrics on two tunes

"This is a remarkable band

playing eighteen of their favorite North Carolina tunes

Colvin culled these 15 live tracks from two decades worth of material

the "dream team of American popular song" (Chicago Tribune) perform highlights from his catalog of more than 1

It was intentionally recorded live with no frills and few overdubs

and Ella Fitzgerald