Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) Recommends

rating: 80/100 - review: If one wants to know how prog and jazz fusion changed to assume a 90s still-life in sound then they just need to listen to this fascinating double CD! A group from Chicago that starts from the premise of cold, atmospheric sound and departs to the point of improvisation and the stretching of their original musical ideas. The scenes evoked by this wonderful set of "program music" include (in my most sober mind) camp fires in the middle of pasture at night with fireflies bugging the night-glowed campers. Happy happy mystical joy! Ice space and the sudden interruption of a rail road in the distant distance. (The video for one of this record's tracks featured a very homey looking home video of icicles forming on trees in the middle of a mostly barren field and the formation is speeded up to show the process via elapsed time photography like, man man man . . .)this album and its music is just too cool, it forces one to renew that term, steal it back from the millennials who use it now to describe their silly video games or whatever garbage they be into now. `Cause this album is just so smooth and delicious and COOL to be ignored without superlatives.

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