"It's right there in the title of the first track, "Vegetation Grows Thick," whose textures feel like mutant organic tissue. With dusty hip-hop drums straightened out and sped up, it feels a bit like an old Mo' Wax record left in a damp attic until it grew mold in its grooves-humid, buzzed, and a little blissed-out in its spongy transformation. It's a head rush grounded in the earth, electronics running through soil and sending messages to god knows where."
"With a bobbing and weaving bassline, watercolor guitar strums, and a 7/4 rhythm that stubbornly refuses to resolve, the song feels like it is tumbling forward in perpetual motion. Like its parent album Touch, the beauty of "Oganesson" is in its penumbral qualities: a spinning dream machine that flickers between light and shade. In time-honored Tortoise fashion, the band dropped "Oganesson" alongside a suite of remixes-mostly notably, one by Saul Williams that lent this instrumental band a new political voice,"
Selections span lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, and ubiquitous chart-toppers, all expanding genre toolkits while probing love and human connection. Gyrofield moved from drum'n'bass toward stickier, more pliable forms on Suspension of Belief; the track 'Vegetation Grows Thick' pairs dusty hip-hop drums with humid, buzzed textures that feel like moldy Mo' Wax grooves and electronics running through soil. Tortoise returned after nine years with 'Oganesson,' featuring a bobbing, weaving bassline, watercolor guitar, and a stubborn 7/4 rhythm; the song emphasizes penumbral, dreamlike motion and arrived with remixes including one by Saul Williams that introduced a political voice.
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