Order of the Toad

you can hear a country kid meeting the rest of the world—and with this record

casual and relaxed over the entire run time

the first example of such work for the group

Of their alchemical and otherworldly creative chemistry

TORTOISE - Touch LP Funk Order of the Toad"Touch" is the first new album from the groundbreaking post everything icons Tortoise since 2016. With "Touch", the Tortoise bandmembers Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon and John McEntire harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz