Touch [CD] (CD)

Touch [CD] (CD)Tortoise Touch Tortoise return with Touch, their first new album since 2016, released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The legendary post everything pioneers Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire once again harness their collectivist songwriting approach, where ideas triumph over ego and genre becomes a playground. While Touch nods to the dusky jazz ambience of landmarks like Millions Now Living Will

Tortoise – Touch

Tortoise return with Touch, their first new album since 2016, released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The legendary post-everything pioneers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — once again harness their collectivist songwriting approach, where ideas triumph over ego and genre becomes a playground.

While Touch nods to the dusky jazz ambience of landmarks like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, it also marks a bold new embrace of grand gestures. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares coexist within the band’s unmistakable internal logic — alluring, confounding, and endlessly rewarding.

Recorded across Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, Touch reflects Tortoise’s geographically expanded reality while recapturing the spirit of collaboration that defined their loft-era experiments. The result is one of the group’s most diverse and reinvigorated releases to date.

Highlights

• First new Tortoise album since 2016

• Released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records

• Features stylistic range: Krautrock, techno, jazz ambience, spaghetti western fanfares

• Recorded across Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago

• Reaffirms Tortoise’s role as innovators of genre-defying sound

Tracklist

1: Vexations
2: Layered Presence
3: Works and Days
4: Elka
5: Promenade à deux
6: Axial Seamount
7: A Title Comes
8: Rated OG
9: Oganesson
10: Night Gang

• Released: 10/24/2025
• Format: CD
• Genre: Indie