Blog: Lend Me Your Ears

Warp's exuberant 20th birthday celebrations bring home the realisation that the same landmark is looming for another venerable independent. But while Thrill Jockey may date all the way back to Bettina Richards' bedroom launch in 1992, it's hardly showing its age - indeed, to these ears the Chicago label's hit a particularly rich, vigorous vein of form lately. Perhaps that has something to do with Tortoise 's emergence from hibernation. Certainly, the post-rock leviathan's first proper album in five years (see [...]

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