TORTOISE RELEASE BEACONS OF ANCESTORSHIP JUNE 23RD ON THRILL JOCKEY. FIRST FULL-LENGTH OF NEW MATERIAL IN FIVE YEARS. The great majority of artists spend their formative years, if not their entire careers, working to shake off the gravitational pull of their predecessors, and the many masters and masterpieces that came before them. Rare indeed is the artist who outgrows their early influences, and instead become one of the markers by which other groups are measured. Almost alone among bands of the last two decades, Tortoise is a group that resists easy metaphors and analogies, who can be described as sounding like only themselves and no one else

you can listen two songs "High Class Slim Came Floatin' In" and "Prepare Your Coffin" at Tortoise Myspace.