Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon

wow! is this going to be awesome + possibly expensive or what?

http://thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=100394

oh well its nice but i hate that phase when bands can't come up with anything new and worthwhile and just scrap out old abandoned stuff to make a huge ass expensive box set, i see a couple good tracks init (blue station,2 tracks with autechre) but most probably it will be patchy.

patchy can be good, tho.. like in this case

I dont think its a matter of cant come up with new material.. . they released an album not long ago.. . maybe its a bit of a cash grap.. . but considering how impossible and/or expensive it is to get some of this music through japanese imports etc its a kind gesture to long standing fans. ..

i think i'm most excited about the live dvd it comes with, but the rest sounds great too

  Glitchy said:

wow! is this going to be awesome + possibly expensive or what?

 

http://thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=100394

looks reasonably priced, boomkat has it on pre-order for £16

im happy to be wrong about this one..

the first cd is absolutely great so far (im at track 9)

i gotta get this shit.

one time when i was in a local record store in new orleans i was buying some tortoise on vinyl and as i was checking out this ghetto hip hop black guy came in. he had cornrows, an oversized notorious BIG shirt, air force 1's, the works. pretty much typical hip hop kind of guy ya know? well when he saw what i was buying he like ran over to me and i was like woah. he got all excited and told me about how tortoise was his favorite band and toroise live is the best show he had ever seen. it was pretty fucked up yet amazing. that is why i like tortoise, not only is the music sweet but it crosses genres and borders and you never really know wh you will find that is a fan.

i haven't had a chance to listen to any of this yet but i just ordered it, i can't wait to get it. tortoise wails

Heck yes, I'm all over this. Will fill many of the remaining holes in my Tortoise collection. Bonus dvd too!

i slept on the pre order. now it's out of stock. wtf

You can pre-order on Amazon

it's 15 bucks?? can that be right??

Yep, pretty similar price to the Stereolab 3cd + dvd set. I'm sure some of the other sellers on Amazon will be selling it cheaper once it's out too.

yeah, cost me 15 pounds so it's probably only $15 or so. is this a limited run or is thrill jockey going to keep it in print?

wow, i got this today, it's fantastic!!

the first disc of this is amazing. amazing music amazingly sequenced. wow.

Aaah when will mine arrive, another day without it!!!!

Is the packaging all snazzy?

i really like the artwork. it comes in a square cardboard box with individual sleeves + booklet, nothign too fancy, but it's a nice package in my opinion.

cliff dweller society, oh my lord what a track.