TORTOISE - The Catastrophist LP Minimal Wave from the fractured techno breaks

from the fractured techno breaks of ”Fly on You”

Never before reissued

She finds harmony rather than dissonance in synthesizing raw and organic materials with the technological

The sound is something in between but even that doesn’t do a good job describing what they do

TORTOISE - The Catastrophist LP Minimal Wave from the fractured techno breaksChicagos borderless Tortoise present their 1st album in seven years with The Catastrophist adding a whole new bunch of stamps to their travelled sonic passports. After 25 years of category defying music, they remain a unique, complex proposition with the finely honed agility to hop from whizzy electro jazz to progressive rock in the space of one track, whilst also taking in a narcotised cover of David Essex U. S. Maples Rock On, plus a seductive 60s