Tortoise - A Lazarus Taxon

  by Jamie Rowland

published: 19 / 6 / 2006

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Review

Tortoise’s new box set, ‘A Lazarus Taxon’, is made up of three CDs, including rare singles, foreign releases, tour EPs, compilation tracks, previously unreleased material and the out-of-print 1995 album ‘Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters’. The box set also contains a DVD featuring most of Tortoise's videos and extensive live performance footage. Tracks included on this collection are the fantastic ‘Gamera’, an extended version of ‘His Second Story Island from the band’s first, self-titled LP; ‘Madison Area’, taken from a 7” released to promote the TNT world tour and ‘Waihopai’, from the 2001 'Gently Cupping The Chin Of The Age' EP. There are also remixes from the legendary likes of Steve Albini, Nobukazu Takemura, Mike Watt and Jim O’Roukre. But, honestly, you don’t really need to read a review of this, do you? It’s a Tortoise box set. Just go and buy it!

Track Listing:-

1 Gamera
2 The Source of Uncertainty
3 Blackbird
4 Sexual For Elizabeth
5 To Day Retrieval
6 Whitewater
7 Didjeridoo
8 Autumn Sweater
9 Wait
10 A Grape Dope
11 Restelss Waters
12 Vaus
13 Blue Station
14 Madison Area
15 TNT (Remixed by Nobukazu Takemura)
16 Why We Fight
17 Elmerson, Lincoln, and Palmieri
18 Peering
19 Goriri
20 As You Said
21 CTA
22 Deltitnu
23 Adverse Camber
24 Cliff Dweller Society
25 Waihopai
26 Alcohall
27 Your New Rod
28 Cobwebbed
29 The Match Incident
30 Tin Cans Puerto Rican Remix
31 Not Quite East Of The Ryan
32 Initial Gesture Protraction
33 Cornpone Brunch Watt Remix