Yes, tortoise in non-boring album shocker. Good review but this has been out for, like, two months or something...

I think John McEntire would hunt you down and kill you if he saw that Daft Punk reference!
Good review though otherwise.
Actually I really liked It's All Around You when it came out. This might sound wanky, but in the first half of this decade I found a lot of artists from all fields that had been associated with Post Modernity seemed to be juxtaposing their own previous ideas together to create something that had a strong defining self portrait quality. Take David Lynch's Mulholland Drive for example...
I was a student at the time so maybe that had something to do with this psuedo intellectual bollocks notion...

Strange to see a Tortoise review on RA, but it's a pretty good album nevertheless!

i haven't heard this new lp yet (although it sounds cool and i'm sure i'll like it) but i gotta say "it's all around you" is one of my favorite records. that album is fucking dope as shit! to me I'm not really sure how tortoise seemed like they were "doomed to produce a series of diminishing but comfortably familiar returns"... How about the Bumps release on stones throw? straight up raw driving percussion throughout... they is innovators!

Fair play for for getting round to reviewing though. Nice to see some variation in the genres!

OTM review.