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Sep 16, 2026
Mark EllenHOST
Mm
Janine WarrenGUEST
... that kind of, um, American scene where you had, like, the kind of Tortoise and-
David HepworthHOST
Mm
Janine WarrenGUEST
... bands like, like that.
Jonathan HeeterGUEST
It's called Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy.
Jonathan HeeterGUEST
by Jeff Parker, who is the guitarist in Tortoise, a legendary post-rock band, and then plays this sort of jazz fusion-y type stuff now, kind of jazz ambient post-rock fusion stuff.
Jonathan HeeterGUEST
And he's really interesting because he does a lot of live releases.
Jonathan HeeterGUEST
Most of them are only available for paid download on Bandcamp.
Charlie HardingGUEST
And that's n- And that's the, the digit two, number two, lowercase, all lowercase hollis, no space.
Charlie HardingGUEST
And, uh, you'll, you'll be, I think, interested to learn, Jeremy, that 2hollis is also the progeny of one of the members of Tortoise.
Jeremy KirklandHOST
Oh, shoot.
Charlie HardingGUEST
Yeah.
Jeremy KirklandHOST
... you know, at the same time anyway.
Jeremy KirklandHOST
That-
Charlie HardingGUEST
It's all one Tortoise.
Jeremy KirklandHOST
Yeah.
Brett VargoHOST
The term post-rock is...
Brett VargoHOST
It's now a widely used critical buzzword to describe bands like Tortoise and Godspeed and Explosions in the Sky and all these bands and retroactively applied to stuff like Ladder Talk Talk.
Brett VargoHOST
But the term was originally coined by journalist Simon Reynolds in his four star Mojo review for this very album.
Brett VargoHOST
And really, it was the best way that he could describe this sound that a lot like those talk talk records like Spirit of Eden and Laughingstock goes from ambient electronic soundscapes to sharp bursts of noise to pastoral jazziness.
AaronHOST
Take care out there.
AaronHOST
Also, just before I go, I should shout out, I tend to forget to, but the bed music that plays during the voice breaks, the first two voice breaks, is Maholo by Sun Aurora, and this current one you're listening to is Tortoise, a track called It's All Around You.
AaronHOST
They've been by my side for many, many years now, and they still sound good.
speaker_0NARRATOR
That was a 95BFM podcast.
Steve HolmesGUEST
And they were like the best at that style of music.
Steve HolmesGUEST
And so I think as we were discovering, you know, post-rock was happening in Chicago, Tortoise and Seacake were influences and We were discovering like Nick Drake and leaning into Red House Painters and slower, prettier music.
Steve HolmesGUEST
We decided like, let's do the opposite.
Steve HolmesGUEST
Like let's, you know, if these guys have perfected this style of loud, screamy music, let's do quiet, pretty music.
Dan CableHOST
I had seen Space Moth before.
Dan CableHOST
They opened for Tortoise earlier this year in Portland, and I went to one of those shows, and my buddy Chris Frank, who took me along with him to see Tortoise, he was like, I think you're really going to like this opening band performance.
Dan CableHOST
So I was very hyped when I found out that Space Moth would be on a majority of this Laloos tour.
Dan CableHOST
It was really... really sweet just inspiring inspiring music for sure um and there was you know just a lot of standout shows on this one it felt like every show was a good one which is really cool for a tour of this length whether we're doing you know spokane washington bozeman Montana you know some of these these smaller places um or if we were doing bigger city like Seattle Washington and just uh downtown middle of the day free show and and you know maybe a thousand people out there to to see the band rip which was really cool getting to see uh Shayna and Laloos playing in Seattle in the place that she started Laloos, I think was a really fun thing to get to witness as well.
Vish KhannaHOST
You're at home, I see, in Chicago, uh, which I'm...
Vish KhannaHOST
I half expected you to be on the road with Tortoise 'cause every time I go to my Instagram, Tortoise seems to be playing somewhere.
Vish KhannaHOST
You're on a little break, I'm guessing? Or what's up?
Douglas McCombsGUEST
Yeah, I'm just between things.
Douglas McCombsGUEST
Um, Tortoise has more things coming up in about a week, but I'm home for th- home for the moment.
Vish KhannaHOST
And weren't you...
Vish KhannaHOST
Were you not also in Toronto recently to play a show with a different band?
Douglas McCombsGUEST
I was there with Tortoise-
Austin RichHOST
Magetta is also in the group MSSV, uh, and, and a number of other, um, uh, interesting projects from what I understand.
Austin RichHOST
And then the third person in that group is a John Herndon, uh, from Tortoise, uh, who is going to be the, the, the drums and percussion, uh, for that trio.
Austin RichHOST
So, uh, That's going to be a lot of fun.
Austin RichHOST
Looking forward to having those interviews on the show.
John DiazGUEST
I also got interested in Chicago music from, you know, Thrill Jokey.
John DiazGUEST
And there were bands that were doing jazz with experimental stuff like Tortoise.
John DiazGUEST
And so I liked a lot of that as well as drum and bass music.
John DiazGUEST
There was a small subculture in my hometown of drum and bass music that I was a part of for a long time.
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