Tortoise - Rhythms, Resolutions & ClustersTortoise have spent nearly 30 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago based instrumental quintet have nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout their revered and influential discography, the resulting sounds have always been distinctly, even stubbornly, their own. One of the throughlines that create that distinctive sound is what might be called a pervasive element of group play, or ensemble mindedness, as

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This album channels that vision with both reverence and inventiveness

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It is famously also the first record ever made entirely from samples of other people’s records – with a particularly broad array of sources used

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