It's All Around You - Tortoise
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68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 31 Critics What's this?

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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

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  • Summary: The Chicago post-rock instrumentalists add vocals (courtesy of Kelly Hogan) into the mix for the first time on this, their fifth LP.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 31
  3. Negative: 0 out of 31
  1. Urb
    90
    Evidence that these musical minds are sharper than ever. [Jun 2004, p.87]
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  2. Almost Cool
    80
    It's All Around You has both serious ambience and serious grooves, it rocks occasionally, and it doesn't dip into jazz nearly as much as some of their past releases.
  3. Mojo
    60
    It drifts rudderlessly in places, but at its best... it's among Tortoise's most persuasive music to date. [Apr 2004, p.108]
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  4. Stylus Magazine
    60
    Too many tracks on It’s All Around You don’t quite measure up to the compositional quality or imagination of previous works.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 9
  3. Negative: 1 out of 9
  1. Jessie
    10
    Excellent!
  2. DugginsB
    9
    Excellent album.
  3. wackyman
    8
    instead of focussing on experiment and small details tortoise have focussed more on the songs themselves on their latest is that a bad thing? not really, althoug some critics. will disagree cause they are more accesible with this album… Expand
  4. FuCKOff
    0
    One of the worst albums ever released.

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