»In which we find Lazarus Taxon

In another joyous moment of serendipity, I noticed Tortoise's new release just as I was leaving the record shop, unhappily empty-handed. Lazarus Taxon is a gleeful collection of everything that realises Tortoise's redefinition of rock: video collage; concrete photographs (automotive accidents, so ultra-real that I thought they were staged, cinematic); remixes by punk-rockers (Mike Watt), noise ( Nobukazu Takemura), and Yo La Tengo.

Lazarus Taxon contains many of the more rare Tortoise tracks ("Goriri", from Macro Dub Infection Vol. 1; "Yaus", their awesome, slanted construction from the Stereolab split single; and so on), and some outstanding video compositions, including "Dear Grandma and Grandpa".