It's All Around You

It's All Around You
Studio album by Tortoise
Released April 6, 2004 (2004-04-06)
Studio Soma Electronic Music Studios
Genre Post-rock, experimental rock, jazz fusion
Length 43:52
Label Thrill Jockey
Tortoise chronology
Standards
(2001)Standards2001		 It's All Around You
(2004)		 The Brave and the Bold
(2006)The Brave and the Bold2006
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic68/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The A.V. Clubfavorable[3]
BBC Musicfavorable[4]
The Guardian[5]
Pitchfork5.2/10[6]
Robert Christgau[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
Stylus MagazineC[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.

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, Currensy named it one of his 25 favorite albums.[10]

Track listing

All tracks 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

Charts

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

References

  1. 1 2 "It's All Around You by Tortoise". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  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.
  7. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Tortoise". Robert Christgau. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ Randall, Mac (April 21, 2004). "Tortoise: It's All Around You". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 5, 2010. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
  9. ↑ 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.
  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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