It's All Around You

by Tortoise

It's All Around You cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 April 2004
  • Label: Thrill Jockey
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:37
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Chicago post-rock stalwarts expand their intricate, jazz-inflected soundscapes with brighter, more expansive melodies and subtle vocal elements. The fluid compositions heavily integrate marimba, vibraphone, and warm synthesizer tones, creating a highly polished, densely layered, and deceptively complex instrumental record.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, nature, atmospheric, progressive, aquatic, repetitive, motorik, minimal, experimental

Tracklist

  1. It's All Around You (4:09)
  2. The Lithium Stiffs (3:59)
  3. Crest (4:21)
  4. Stretch (You Are All Right) (5:14)
  5. Unknown (5:38)
  6. Dot / Eyes (3:46)
  7. On The Chin (5:21)
  8. By Dawn (1:51)
  9. Five Too Many (4:33)
  10. Salt The Skies (4:45)

Credits

  • Tortoise - primary artist, performer, written-by
  • Oliver Wasow - artwork [images]
  • Sheila Sachs - artwork [prepress]
  • Dan Bitney - band [tortoise:]
  • Douglas McCombs - band [tortoise:]
  • Jeff Parker - band [tortoise:]
  • John Herndon - band [tortoise:]
  • Anna Z - text by [booklet]

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