Tortoise (album)
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| Tortoise | ||||
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | November 29–December 5, 1993 | |||
| Genre | Post-rock | |||
| Length | 50:03 | |||
| Label | Thrill Jockey | |||
| Producer | Tortoise | |||
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Tortoise is the debut studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise.[1] It was released in 1994 via Thrill Jockey. It received positive reviews from critics.
By March 1998, Tortoise had sold 35,000 copies (8,000 LPs and 27,000 CDs).[2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Chicago Tribune | [4] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [5] |
| Melody Maker | [6] |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
| Uncut | [8] |
Trouser Press noted that "the beckoning warmth of the gently shifting rhythms ... make it easy to forget that there's nary a whit of guitar and only the briefest whiff of standard-issue keyboards in play."[9] In his review for AllMusic, Glenn Swan writes that Tortoise "share equal responsibility and trust in each other, pouring out a thick stew of meditative grooves, light production experiments, and rusty guitar-string ambience -- the likes of which have rarely sounded so approachable, but this is not to say the album is a sellout leap into commercialism. There are a couple head scratchers and murky moments that fail to make much of an impact, but the quintet have spun such a rich web of mood and personality that any fall from grace barely changes altitude".[3]
