Between 1994’s Tortoise, 1996’s “Millions Now Living Will Never Die” and 1998’s TNT, Tortoise remade instrumental improv-rock in their image: a jittery, fleshy American sound that borrowed from samba, dub, art metal, post-bop, tango, no wave and Afro-avant jazz cut ‘n’ pasted at whim. But, as witnessed by “Standards” (on Thrill Jockey, of course) — […]
