Album Review: Touch by Tortoise

The Chicago quintet's subsequent output was a bit more slow-moving, due in part to demands placed on the individual members as musicians and engineers in a variety of other projects. Those albums -- including their last until now, 2016's The Catastrophist -- still had a spirit of experimentation, but were greeted by most with a sense of renovation rather than innovation. Though it's their first record in nine years, Touch is a project that's been assembled slowly and painstakingly over the last four, according to the band's press materials.

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Are we there yet? After nine years, Tortoise's eighth studio album finally pulls up--and reminds us this is a band in no hurry. Over four decades, the Chicago five-piece have become legendary for an instrumental sound that meanders. Across genres, sure (jazz and Krautrock, especially). Within song structure, definitely (forget hooks and choruses; it's about vibes and vibraphones).

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