But then I read about this band called Tortoise that was releasing a new album called Beacons of Ancestorship along with lead single “Prepare Your Coffin.” It was a killer track (that ultimately and tragically was on a good but less than killer album) that more than piqued my interest, and I wanted to listen to more immediately. I was introduced to Tortoise at the very tail end of my college life, by which point I had already become familiarized and enamored of some classic post-rock and metal of the late 90s into 2000s: Mogwai, Explosions In the Sky, GY!BE, Pelican even. I have my own very personal connection to this album, but like people many these days, I came to it long after the fact. You may have missed it, but March marked the 20th anniversary of one of the most seminal albums of post-rock history and of that brief, shining period of time in the 90s when the music very loosely bundled together under the “post-rock” moniker was at its peak cultural cachet – Tortoise‘s TNT. The first is certainly of greater significance and weight. Two pretty wildly different bits of post-rock culture have stuck in my mind from this past month.
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