Tortoise Return With First New Song in Nearly a Decade: Listen

Put up-rock legends Tortoise have returned with their first new track in almost a decade. The self-produced “Oganesson” is out now, by way of International Anthem and Nonesuch, and it’s only a sampling of a “bigger physique of labor” to be launched, per press supplies. Hearken to the brand new observe under.

“Oganesson” was recorded by Tortoise drummer John McEntire at 64 Sound in Los Angeles, Flora Recording and Playback Studios (each in Portland, Oregon), and the late Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio within the group’s dwelling metropolis of Chicago. McEntire additionally blended the tracked, and Dave Cooley did the mastering.

The band—comprising McEntire, Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, and John Herndon—launched their most up-to-date LP, The Catastrophist, in 2016. That album marked their first since 2009’s Beacons of Ancestorship.

Revisit Mark Richardson’s Sunday Evaluation of Tortoise’s extremely influential 1998 LP, TNT.