Post-rock titans, Tortoise, have announced details of their first long-player in nine years.
Touch is set for release on October 24 via Nonesuch Records / International Anthem. Earlier today the band shared the video for lead track, Layered Presence, which you can watch / listen to below.
The album marks the first where Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney and John Herndon recorded in various locations, with multiple studio set-ups in three different cities – Los Angeles, Portland and Chicago.
“It’s the first record we’ve done where everything wasn’t based in Chicago,” says Parker. “Two of us are in Chicago. Two of us are here in Los Angeles and John [McEntire] is in Portland, OR. We recorded in several different places. But the strange thing is, in a way it’s kind of the most cohesive session that we’ve done.”
“We don’t work remotely, unfortunately. We kind of all have to be in the room together. For me the trial-and-error stage is very important. I didn’t want to lose that,” adds multi-instrumentalist and recording / mixing engineer, McEntire.
“It’s like, humans adapt,” adds Herndon “If you’re used to doing something one way, and then it flips, well, you have to adapt to another way of working. I think that that’s what we all were aspiring to do with this, endeavoring to kick in our adaptation skills.”
Touch track listing:
- Vexations
- Layered Presence
- Works and Days
- Elka
- Promenade à deux
- Axial Seamount
- A Title Comes
- Rated OG
- Oganesson
- Night Gang
Touch is out on October 24 via Nonesuch Records / International Anthem. Pre-order here.
