Standards (Tortoise album)

The album was produced using less of the studio manipulation that had been employed on previous records.[13]

The A.V. Club wrote that "the band is poised between capturing a momentary, malleable inspiration and shaping that moment into some timeless anthem, and as always, it chooses to dither and delay, settling for a sometimes pleasant, sometimes maddening, almost always stimulating exploration of atmospherics."[14] Entertainment Weekly called the album "mood music for post-post-moderns, both forward- and backward-looking."[5] Spin deemed it "a cohesion of styles and impulses so tight we might call it originality."[9] The New Zealand Herald called Standards "a neatly intriguing, mish-mash of instrumental rock shot through with lopsided grooves, dreamy drones, not-quite-jazz percussion and vibes, and knob-twiddling electronica rubbing up against a junk-store of old instruments - all of which somehow emerges as an accessible, tuneful, structured affair."[15]

Sourced from Bandcamp.[16]

Tortoise

• Jeff Parker - guitar, bass
• Dan Bitney - bass, guitar, percussion, vibes, marimba, keyboards, baritone saxophone
• Douglas McCombs - bass, bass 6, guitar, lap steel
• John Herndon - drums, vibes, keyboards, sequencing
• John McEntire - drums, modular synthesizer, ring modulator guitar, electric harpsichord, keyboards

• Standards at Discogs (list of releases)