#post-rock

#post-rock

Tortoise releasing a record with anyone other than Thrill Jockey after a 30-plus-year relationship is a shocker for a group not known for dramatic changes. It's akin to Autechre abandoning Warp! Anyway, the important thing about Tortoise is that their last two albums before the International Anthem/Nonesuch-reared Touch - 2009's Beacons of Ancestorship and 2016's The Catastrophist - have been among their most vital and inventive, an unusual trajectory for a group well into their fourth decade.

Some bands use a variety of traditional instruments to make music and then there are Sirom. A trio that formed a decade ago over interests in post-rock and drone (their name means around or widely in their native Slovenian), they list more than two dozen instruments in the liner notes of their fifth album, from the Persian gheychak to the Mongolian morin khuur. They create a palette that's kaleidoscopic in its textural, dynamic and melodic explorations of sound.

Chicago post-rock staples Tortoise are back with their first new album in nine years. arrives on vinyl, CD, and digital download on October 24, via International Anthem and Nonesuch, with the album coming to digital streaming platforms on November 11. Today, Tortoise are sharing the new song "Layered Presence," with its Mikel Patrick Avery -directed music video. Check it out below.