TORTOISE

The group's second full-length offering is probably best remembered as the indie album that threw away the song completely. More interested in grooves and expression than verses and choruses, its instrumental passages incorporate "rock" instrumentation with a remix ethic, sometimes slipping into a loose jam before warping through hip-hop scratching and fractured samples. There's not much point in differentiating between the tracks; suffice it to say that "Djed" is the really long one at the beginning and "Along the Banks of Rivers" is the doomed Russian romance soundtrack at the end.

Estimated despatch 14-20 days after ordering.