Tracklist
1 | High Class Slim Came Floatin' In | 8:15 | |
2 | Prepare Your Coffin | 3:38 | |
3 | Northern Something | 2:25 | |
4 | Gigantes | 6:22 | |
5 | Penumbra | 1:08 | |
6 | Yinxianghechengqi | 3:38 | |
7 | The Fall Of Seven Diamonds Plus One | 3:40 | |
8 | Minors | 4:24 | |
9 | Monument Six One Thousand | 3:22 | |
10 | De Chelly | 1:47 | |
11 | Charteroak Foundation | 5:07 |
A characteristic Tortoise album is one that traverses an encyclopedia of styles and reference points, a document of where musical intersections and dialogue are occurring at a given moment in time. Beacons of Ancestorship is no different, with nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut-up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. We see these ideas working out in compositions like “High Class Slim Came Floatin’ In,” an eight-minute track which playfully references the world of ecstatic rave and dance culture with a curiously ambivalent, multi-part suite overlaid with robotic, machine-sounding melodies that stop and start in several different time signatures before the song’s ultimate resolution; and again in “Yinxianghechengqi,” which begins as a straightforward uptempo math-rocker before steadily accelerating into a wall of fuzzy atonal sqwonk.