It's All Around You

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It's All Around You
Tortoise its all around you.jpg
Studio album by
Tortoise
ReleasedApril 6, 2004 (2004-04-06)
Studio Soma Electronic Music Studios
Genre
Length43:52
Label Thrill Jockey
Tortoise chronology
Standards
(2001)		It's All Around You
(2004)		 The Brave and the Bold
(2006)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 68/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The A.V. Club favorable [3]
BBC Music favorable [4]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Pitchfork 5.2/10 [6]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Stylus Magazine C [8]
The Village Voice Rating-Christgau-dud.svg [9]

It's All Around You is the fifth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2004.

Contents

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68% based on 31 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

In 2011, American rapper Currensy named it one of his 25 favorite albums, stating: "I don’t do major drugs, but it was an acid trip in audio form." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, Jeff Parker.

No.TitleLength
1."It's All Around You"4:09
2."The Lithium Stiffs"3:59
3."Crest"4:21
4."Stretch (You Are All Right)"5:14
5."Unknown"5:38
6."Dot/Eyes"3:46
7."On the Chin"5:21
8."By Dawn"1:51
9."Five Too Many"4:33
10."Salt the Skies"4:45
Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
11."Elmerson, Lincoln, & Palmieri"2:36
12."Deltitnu"5:49

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [11] 31
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [12] 13

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References

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  2. ↑ Bush, John. "It's All Around You - Tortoise". AllMusic . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Battaglia, Andy (April 5, 2004). "Tortoise: Its All Around You". The A.V. Club . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ Marsh, Peter (2004). "Tortoise - It's All Around You - Review". BBC Music . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ Lynskey, Dorian (April 1, 2004). "Tortoise, It's All Around You". The Guardian . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  6. ↑ DiCrescenzo, Brent (April 7, 2004). "Tortoise: It's All Around You". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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  8. ↑ Schepper, Ron (April 6, 2004). "Tortoise - It's All Around You". Stylus Magazine . Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ Christgau, Robert (2004-05-05). "Anti-Gravitational Boots". The Village Voice .
  10. ↑ Ahmed, Insanul (July 5, 2011). "Curren$y's 25 Favorite Albums: Tortoise, It's All Around You (2004)". Complex . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  11. ↑ "Tortoise - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  12. ↑ "Tortoise - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard . Retrieved April 8, 2017.
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