TNT (Tortoise album)

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AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
NME4/10[3]
Pitchfork Media9.0/10[4]
Rolling Stone[5]
Uncut[6]

TNT is the third album by American post-rock band Tortoise. The cover art is simply a doodle made by a band member on a CD-R cover insert during the recording sessions.[citation needed]

"Jetty" is an alternate version of 1997 song "La Jetée" by Tortoise's jazzier sister group, Isotope 217. (Both songs took their name from landmark experimental film La jetée.)

The track "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women and Men" takes its title from a similarly titled work from Robert Ashley recorded in 1972.[7]

Track listing

  1. "TNT" – 7:33
  2. "Swung from the Gutters" – 5:52
  3. "Ten-Day Interval" – 4:44
  4. "I Set My Face to the Hillside" – 6:08
  5. "The Equator" – 3:42
  6. "A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" – 3:33
  7. "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" – 5:38
  8. "Four-Day Interval" – 4:45
  9. "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women and Men" – 7:29
  10. "Almost Always Is Nearly Enough" – 2:42
  11. "Jetty" – 8:21
  12. "Everglade" – 4:21

Personnel

Tortoise [8]
Additional personnel

References

  1. ^ Bush, John. "TNT – Tortoise". AllMusic. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  3. ^ Oldham, James (March 7, 1998). "Tortoise – TNT". NME. Archived from the original on August 17, 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  4. ^ DiCrescenzo, Brent. "Tortoise: TNT". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on October 3, 1999. Retrieved July 12, 2016.
  5. ^ Ratliff, Ben (March 23, 1998). "Tortoise: TNT". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on May 3, 2009. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  6. ^ "Tortoise – TNT CD". CD Universe. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  7. ^ Tyranny, "Blue" Gene. "Robert Ashley - In Sara Mencken Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
  8. ^ "Tortoise – TNT". Discogs. Retrieved 2016-01-24.
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