TORTOISE Beacons Of Ancestorship (2009 UK 11-track CD album - A
characteristic Tortoise album is one that traverses an encyclopaedia of
styles and reference points, a document of where musical
intersections and dialogue are occurring at a given moment in time.
'Beacons Of Ancestorship' is no different, with nods to techno, punk,
electro, lo-fi noise, cut-up beats, heavily processed synths, and
mournful, elegiac dirges. We see these ideas working out in
compositions like 'High Class Slim Came Floatin' In', an eight-minute
track which playfully references the world of ecstatic rave and dance
culture with a curiously ambivalent, multi-part suite overlaid with
robotic, machine-sounding melodies that stop and start in several
different time signatures before the song's ultimate resolution; and
again in 'Yinxianghechengqi', which begins as a straightforward
uptempo math-rocker before steadily accelerating into a wall of fuzzy
atonal sqwonk. Presented in a 4-panel mini-LP style card picture
sleeve).
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