Standards | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | February 20, 2001 | |||
Recorded | 2000 | |||
Studio | Soma Electronic Music Studio, Chicago | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 44:18 | |||
Label | Thrill Jockey | |||
Producer | John McEntire [1] | |||
Tortoise chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 78/100 [2] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ [5] |
NME | [6] |
Pitchfork | 9.2/10 [7] |
Rolling Stone | [8] |
Spin | 7/10 [9] |
Standards is the fourth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. [10] [11] It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2001. [12]
The album was produced using less of the studio manipulation that had been employed on previous records. [13]
The A.V. Club wrote that "the band is poised between capturing a momentary, malleable inspiration and shaping that moment into some timeless anthem, and as always, it chooses to dither and delay, settling for a sometimes pleasant, sometimes maddening, almost always stimulating exploration of atmospherics." [14] Entertainment Weekly called the album "mood music for post-post-moderns, both forward- and backward-looking." [5] Spin deemed it "a cohesion of styles and impulses so tight we might call it originality." [9] The New Zealand Herald called Standards "a neatly intriguing, mish-mash of instrumental rock shot through with lopsided grooves, dreamy drones, not-quite-jazz percussion and vibes, and knob-twiddling electronica rubbing up against a junk-store of old instruments - all of which somehow emerges as an accessible, tuneful, structured affair." [15]
All tracks are written by Tortoise
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Seneca" | 6:20 |
2. | "Eros" | 4:26 |
3. | "Benway" | 4:46 |
4. | "Firefly" | 3:56 |
5. | "Six Pack" | 3:11 |
6. | "Eden 2" | 2:08 |
7. | "Monica" | 6:30 |
8. | "Blackjack" | 4:07 |
9. | "Eden 1" | 2:36 |
10. | "Speakeasy" | 6:18 |
Total length: | 44:18 |
No. | Title | Length |
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11. | "Blackbird" | 5:04 |
12. | "Blue Station" | 5:37 |
Chart | Peak position |
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UK Albums (OCC) [17] | 95 |
US Billboard 200 [18] | 200 |
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [19] | 10 |
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