TNT (Tortoise album)

TNT
Studio album by Tortoise
Released	March 10, 1998
Recorded	November 1996–November 1997
Genre	Post-rock, experimental rock, jazz fusion
Length	64:48
Label	Thrill Jockey
Producer	John McEntire
Tortoise chronology
Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) TNT (1998) In the Fishtank 5 (1999)

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TNT is the third album by American post-rock band Tortoise. The cover art is simply a doodle made by a band member on a CD-R cover insert during the recording sessions.

"Jetty" is an alternate version of 1997 song "La Jetée" by Tortoise's jazzier sister group, Isotope 217. (Both songs took their name from landmark experimental film La jetée.)

The track "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women and Men" takes its title from a similarly titled work from Robert Ashley recorded in 1972.^[1]

Track listing

1. "TNT" – 7:33
2. "Swung from the Gutters" – 5:52
3. "Ten-Day Interval" – 4:44
4. "I Set My Face to the Hillside" – 6:08
5. "The Equator" – 3:42
6. "A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" – 3:33
7. "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" – 5:38
8. "Four-Day Interval" – 4:45
9. "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women and Men" – 7:29
10. "Almost Always Is Nearly Enough" – 2:42
11. "Jetty" – 8:21
12. "Everglade" – 4:21

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