Artist: Tortoise
Album: Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Year of Release: 1996
Label: Thrill Jockey
For some reason every Tortoise record immediately brings to mind the place I was when it was in my main rotation. I'm guessing this is because they're instrumental and thus resemble a soundtrack, but maybe it's just random. Anyway, with TNT, I can envision the summer after grad school when I had no idea what was going to happen. For Standards, I remember a trip to Adrienne's house where I must have listened to "Seneca" a couple dozen times. And for this one I recall hearing "Glass Museum" while drinking at Tired Hands during one of my consulting trips to Philly, and then telling myself "hey you should listen to that more." I did just that and now it's my favorite of theirs, if only by a sliver. The reason for its superiority is almost entirely "Djed," the opening twenty-minute journey that's everything Tortoise in a nutshell.
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