Disco de Tortoise: “Millions Now Living Will Never Die”

From the very beginning to the very end, this record keeps the ear entertained despite it is repetitive and very cold music. The synthesis of ambient, minimalism, jazz, electronic and avantgarde-rock is perfect, since the music flows quite naturally. The opener "Djed" is a perfect development of krautrock through new technology and some minimalism, and one of the key pieces of nineties' music. The five other pieces are not so complex and coherent, but still offer a bunch of influences tied together in a very personal style and an uniquely cool sound.

I've had TNT for awhile now, and I love that album. I wanted to get this album because of djed. This album is shorter than TNT, but I think its better that way. If your a fan of Can, Faust, Neu, or Tangerine dream, you'll want to get this album. If your a fan of post-rock, you'll want to get this album. I don't know what kind of music the negative reviewers listen to. But if you love music that dares to be different,music that comes from the underground, from the indie scene, from people who also love music, you will want to check out this cd.

If one wants to know how prog and jazz fusion changed to assume a 90s still then they just need to listen to this fascinating double CD! A group from Chicago that starts from the premise of cold, atmospheric sound and departs to the point of improvisation and the stretching of their original musical ideas. The scenes evoked by this wonderful set of "program music" include (in my most sober mind) camp fires in the middle of pasture at night with fireflies bugging the night-glowed campers. Happy happy mystical joy! Ice space and the sudden interruption of a rail road in the distant distance. (The video for one of this record's tracks featured a very homey looking home video of icecles forming on trees in the middle of a mostly barren field and the formation is speeded up to show the process via elapsed time photography like, man man man . . .)this album and its music is just too cool, it forces one to renew that term, steal it back from the little brats who use it now to describe their silly video games or whatever garbage they be into now. `Cause this album is jost so smooth and delicious and COOL to be ignored without superlatives. BUY IT BY ALL MEANS mlost especially if you are an alumnus of the Happy the Man/Kit Watkins school of spaciouis, lightly improvised sound textures.

Served up best, again, COLD. TORTOISE-SICLE . . . delish

I had read many reviews on Millions Now Living Will Never Die before purchase and realized that Tortoise were darlings of the critics. As a bit of a fan of what has now generally been termed 'post rock' I was curious to see what all the fuss was about.

MNLWND lived up to not only my expecations, but also the hype. It's a gentle experimental journey that hasn't dated in the 10-odd years since it's original release.

Devoid of vocals it has soundtracked many a sunny afternoon with friends, be warned though, at one point it sounds like your CD player is malfunctioning before the beautiful music continues.

We may not see their like again. Vale Tortoise.

Personally, I found this to be a well-recorded and enjoyable foray into an oddball genre. Be sure to sample it somewhere before buying, but if you like the sampling, the full album should be pleasing to you.