The seventh song brings an elevatory eighties synthesizer sound. Recovering within minutes, the drums pick up and the album begins to swing again. To put a label on Tortoise is useless. The instruments speak, not an emotional vocalist. It would be difficult to even pinpoint an influential time period.
Standards is as original as a dream.
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