Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout... more

Vinyl LP repressing of the 1994 debut album from the Post-Rock legends. This 2012 edition has been remastered to vinyl by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering. The packaging emulates the original with a... more

Tortoise's third studio album TNT is released. In and out of print over the past decade we are happy to finally give everyone what they have been asking for - TNT on vinyl again! Pressed on high... more

U.S. vinyl LP pressing. 2001 album from the Chicago-based Post Rock band. The tunes on Standards are direct and immediate, yet they maintain the exploratory edge that has always characterized the... more

Simply put, Tortoise has spent nearly 25 years making music that defies description. While the Chicago-based instrumental quintet has nodded to dub, rock, jazz, electronica and minimalism throughout... more

Millions Now Living Will Never Die is Tortoise's second album, originally released in 1996. This re-issue is pressed on high quality virgin vinyl and packaged in a jacket and inner sleeve both... more

Their first new record in over five years. Tortoise have been expanding the definition of rock music for over fifteen years, with album sales over 100,000 worldwide. BEACONS gives nods to techno,... more

Japanese edition of the dynamic band's fifth album, packaged in a deluxe digipak, features 12 tracks including 2 bonus tracks, 'Emerson, Lincoln, & Palmieri', & 'Deltitnu'. Thrill Jockey. 2004.

Standards, the fourth full-length recording from Chicago's Tortoise, boldly announces their return following 1998's TNT. The fusion of instrumental sounds on this album (electric, acoustic &... more

From the deep and understated rhythms and tones on their 1996 landmark MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE, to the bombastic rock of 2001s STADARDS, Tortoise have always been head of their time. This... more