Tortoise
Touch
EARLY ALBUM
LISTENING EVENTS
Saturday October 18th
Hear (and purchase) the new album by Tortoise in participating record shops around the world one week before its official release date!!!
Touch is the first new music by post-everything legends Tortoise since 2016. It’s also their debut album released by Chicago-born label International Anthem in partnership with Nonesuch Records.
We’ve also partnered with a large list of record stores (over 150 locations around the world!) where, on Saturday October 18th, Tortoise fans can gather to hear the new album in full. The LP/CD will also be available for in-person attendees to purchase exclusively at these events nearly one week before the album’s official release on October 24th.
Check the list below to see if there is a record shop near you where you can hear this beautiful new music by one of our all-time favorite bands. Phone up a friend! Carpool to the shop! When you get to the shop, hold the door open for a new friend, say hello, and listen to Touch, Together!
Participating Locations
ADELAIDE (AU) - Streetlight Music, Books & Film
AMSTERDAM (NL) - Concerto
ARLINGTON (TX) - CD Warehouse Records & Tapes
AUCKLAND (NZ) - Southbound Records
AUSTIN (TX) - Breakaway Records
AUSTIN (TX) - Waterloo Records
BARCELONA (ES) - Revolver
BARI (IT) - CENTRO MUSICA
BARI (IT) - NEW RECORDS
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA (VI, IT) - PICK UP
BEIJING (CN) - fRUITYSHOP
BERLIN (DE) - Bis Aufs Messer Records
BERLIN (DE) - HHV Store
BIARRITZ (FR) - Aberdeen Records
BIRMINGHAM (AL) - Seasick Records
BLOOMINGTON (IN) - Landlocked Music
BOLOGNA (IT) - DISCO D'ORO
BORDEAUX (FR) - Total Heaven
BREST (FR) - Bad Seeds
BRIGHTON (UK) - Resident
BRISBANE (AU) - Rocking Horse Records
BRISTOL (UK) - Rough Trade Bristol
BROOKLYN (NY) - Finer Sounds
BROOKLYN (NY) - Fire Talk Shop
BROOKLYN (NY) - Record Grouch
BRUNSWICK (ME) - Deep Groove Records
BURY (UK) - Wax & Beans
CANTERBURY (UK) - Vinyl Store JR
CARBONDALE (IL) - Plaza Records
CATANIA (IT) - ROCK86
CDMX (MX) - Revancha
CHAMPAIGN (IL) - Exile On Main Street
CHARLOTTE (NC) - Lunchbox Records
CHELTENHAM (UK) - Badlands
CHICAGO (IL) - 606 Records
CHICAGO (IL) - Rattleback Records
CHICAGO (IL) - Pinwheel Records
CHICAGO (IL) - Laurie's Planet of Sound
CHICAGO (US) - Reckless Records (Downtown)
CHICAGO (US) - Reckless Records (Lakeview)
CHICAGO (US) - Reckless Records (Wicker Park)
CHICAGO (IL) - Round Trip Records
CHRISTCHURCH (NZ) - Pennylane
CLERMONT (FR) - Vachement Bien
COLOGNE (DE) - Hauptsache Musik
COLUMBIA (MO) - Hitt Records + Dismal Niche Arts
COOKS HILL (NSW, AU) - Abicus / Mode & Melody Pty Ltd
CORONA (CA) - DBZ Books 'N' Records
DUSSELDORF (DE) - A&0 Medien
EDINBURGH (UK) - Underground Solution
EDMONTON (AB) - Listen Records
EUGENE (OR) - Moon Rock Records
FAENZA (RA, IT) - CASA DEL DISCO
FAIRFAX (VA) - Mobius Records
FIRENZE (IT) - DANEX RECORDS
FREIBURG (DE) - Flight 13
GADSDEN (AL) - Cosmic Debris Records
GDANSK (PL) - Sonar
GENOVA (IT) - DISCOCLUB65
GENT (BE) - Music Mania
GLASGOW (UK) - Monorail
GRANADA (ES) - Discos Marcapasos
GREENVILLE (SC) - Horizon Records
HAMBURG (DE) - Michelle Records
HANNOVER (DE) - 25 Music
HUDDERSFIELD (UK) - Vinyl Tap
INDIANAPOLIS (IN) - Luna Music
KASAI (JP) - Tobira Records
KINGSTON (UK) - Banquet
KRAKOW (PL) - Paul's Boutique
LEEDS (UK) - Crash
LEEDS (UK) - Jumbo
LISBON (PT) - Jazz Messengers (Lisboa)
LIVERPOOL (UK) - Jacaranda
LIVERPOOL (UK) - Rough Trade Liverpool
LIVINGSTON MANOR (NY) - Jitterbug Sight & Sounds x Sunshine Colony
LONDON (UK) - Stranger Than Paradise
LONDON (UK) - Rough Trade West
LONDON (UK) - Rough Trade East
LONDON (UK) - Rough Trade Denmark St
LONDON (UK) - Rough Trade Soho
LYON (FR) - Sofa Records
MADISON (WI) - Strictly Discs
MADRID (ES) - Marilians
MANCHESTER (UK) - Piccadilly
MARLBOROUGH (UK) - Sound Knowledge
MELBOURNE (AU) - Rocksteady Records
METZ (FR) - La Face Cachée
MIAMI (FL) - Sweat Records
MILANO (IT) - OVERDRIVE
MILANO (IT) - SERENDEEPITY
MILANO (IT) - VOLUMEBK
MONTPELLIER (FR) - Ground Zero
MONTREAL (QC) - Le Vacarme
MONTREAL (QC) - Atom Heart
MUNICH (DE) - Optimal! Schallplatten
NANTES (FR) - Melomane
NAPOLI (IT) - FONOTECA
NEWCASTLE (UK) - Reflex
NEWTOWN (NSW, AU) - Re-Pressed Records
NORMAL (IL) - Waiting Room Records
NORWICH (UK) - Venus Vinyl
NOTTINGHAM (UK) - Rough Trade Nottm
OAK PARK (MI) - Street Corner Music
OLYMPIA (WA) - Rainy Day Records
ORLANDO (FL) - Park Ave CDs
OSAKA (JP) - Newtone Records
OXFORD (MS) - The End of All Music
OXFORD (UK) - Truck
PALERMO (IT) - PABLO LISTENING BAR
PARIS (FR) - Souffle Continu
PARRAMATTA (NSW, AU) - Beatdisc Records
PASADENA (CA) - Healing Force of the Universe
PHILADELPHIA (PA) - 48 Record Bar
PHOENIX (AZ) - Stinkweeds Records
PORTLAND (OR) - Specks Records
PORTLAND (OR) - Music Millenium
PORTO (PT) - 8mm Records @ Fiasco
PORTO (PT) - Louie Louie (Porto)
PORTO (PT) - Music and Riots (Porto)
PRESTON (UK) - Action
REGGIO EMILIA (IT) - TOSI DISCHI 2
RENNES (FR) - Blind Spot
ROMA (IT) - RADIATION RECORDS
SALERNO (IT) - DISCLAN
SAN DIEGO (CA) - Folk Arts Rare Records
SAN FRANCISCO (CA) - Tunnel Records
SEATTLE (WA) - Sonic Boom Records
SHANGHAI (CN) - fRUITYSHOP
SHANGHAI (CN) - Root Down (hosted by fRUITYSHOP)
SHANGHAI (CN) - jōdo Records
SHEFFIELD (UK) - Bear Tree
SOUTHAMPTON (UK) - Vinilo, Southampton
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA (UK) - South
SOUTHSEA (UK) - Pie & Vinyl
ST AUGUSTINE (FL) - Tonevendor
ST LOUIS (MO) - Euclid Records
SYDNEY (AU) - Birdland Records
SYDNEY (AU) - Red Eye Records
TAIPEI (TW) - White Wabbit Records
TAYLORSVILLE (UT) - Graywhale
THE HAGUE (NL) - 33/45
TOKYO (JP) - Disk Union ROCK in TOKYO
TORINO (IT) - BACK DOOR
TOTNES (UK) - Drift
TOULOUSE (FR) - Vicious Circle
URBANA (IL) - See You CD & Vinyl
VANCOUVER (BC) - Audiopile
VILLAROBA (TV, IT) - MOVING RECORDS
WELLINGTON (NZ) - Slowboat Records
WEST PALM BEACH (FL) - Rust & Wax
WHITSTABLE (UK) - Gatefield Sounds Whitstable
WINCHESTER (VA) - Hopscotch Coffee & Records
WINOOSKI (VT) - Autumn Records
(photo by Heather Cantrell)
About
Tortoise
Tortoise is widely considered one of the most influential music groups of the last 40 years, with a wide-reaching impact on the contemporary music scene. The band, which originally formed in Chicago in 1990, comprises Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, and Jeff Parker. Initially hailed as pace-setters of an emergent, cinematic instrumental evolution of alternative rock, the Chicago Tribune called Tortoise’s sound “mood music that refuses to be shoved into the background, as inviting as it is challenging.”
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The New Album
Touch
LP/CD/Digital out October 24, 2025
With Touch, Tortoise harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. Aerodynamically re-engineered Krautrock, hand-cranked techno rave-ups, and pointillist desert guitar panoramas are all imbued with Tortoise's now-signature internal logic — equally alluring and confounding, a puzzle to be savored rather than solved.