Tortoise 'Touch' Early Listening Party

Rust & Wax Record Shop will be celebrating the release of the new album 'Touch' by Tortoise with a FREE in-store early listening party on Saturday, October 18th at 4pm.

Join us at this FREE EVENT as we experience the first listen together, almost a week before the album is officially released, and more than 3 weeks before it's available on streaming platforms! We'll have posters and stickers to giveaway (first come, first serve while supplies last), and one lucky attendee will win a promo copy of the album on vinyl!

Not only will you get an early listen to 'Touch', you'll also be able to purchase and take the album home with you almost a week before the rest of the world! We'll have a limited quantity of stock at the party, so we recommend pre-ordering a copy from our website now to guarantee a copy is waiting for you.

RSVP is ENCOURAGED for this event and all RSVP spots are available on a first come, first serve basis. PLEASE ONLY RSVP FOR YOURSELF. IF YOU HAVE FRIENDS OR FAMILY JOINING YOU, PLEASE HAVE THEM RSVP SEPARATELY.

Hope to see y'all there!

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About the album:

With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers — Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire — harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like Millions Now Living Will Never Die and TNT, Touch is perhaps most remarkable for Tortoise's unapologetic embrace of grand gesture. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist spaghetti western fanfares are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.

The stylistic diversity is also a reflection of the band's current operating circumstances: With two members now in Los Angeles, another in Portland, and just two remaining in the band's Chicago hometown, their creative process has shifted dramatically from when they lived together in a loft space in the late 1990s, honing their sound over endless hours of collective experimentation.

Recorded between the three cities — Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago — Touch is the result of an intentional effort by these five musicians to reconnect, recenter, and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps the group’s most diverse release to date.

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