Touch Music CD

Tortoise – Touch

Tortoise return with Touch, their first new album since 2016, released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The legendary post-everything pioneers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — once again harness their collectivist songwriting approach, where ideas triumph over ego and genre becomes a playground.

While Touch nods to the dusky jazz ambience of landmarks like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, it also marks a bold new embrace of grand gestures. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares coexist within the band’s unmistakable internal logic — alluring, confounding, and endlessly rewarding.

Recorded across Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, Touch reflects Tortoise’s geographically expanded reality while recapturing the spirit of collaboration that defined their loft-era experiments. The result is one of the group’s most diverse and reinvigorated releases to date.

Highlights

• First new Tortoise album since 2016

• Released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records

• Features stylistic range: Krautrock, techno, jazz ambience, spaghetti western fanfares

• Recorded across Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago

• Reaffirms Tortoise’s role as innovators of genre-defying sound

Tracklist

1: Vexations
2: Layered Presence
3: Works and Days
4: Elka
5: Promenade à deux
6: Axial Seamount
7: A Title Comes
8: Rated OG
9: Oganesson
10: Night Gang

• Released: 10/24/2025
• Format: CD
• Genre: Indie