Millions Now Living Will Never Die

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die
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Studio album by Tortoise
Released January 30, 1996
Recorded June–September 1995
Studio Idful Music Corporation and Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago
Genre Post-rock
Length 42:56 (American version)
64:30 (non-American version)
68:42 (Japanese version)
Label Thrill Jockey THRILL025
Tortoise chronology
Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
(1995)Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters1995		 Millions Now Living Will Never Die
(1996)		 TNT
(1998)TNT1998
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 5/5 stars[1]
Alternative Press 5/5[2]
NME 8/10[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4/5 stars[4]
Select 4/5 stars[5]
Spin 7/10[6]
Uncut 4/5 stars[7]
The Village Voice B–[8]

Millions Now Living Will Never Die is the second album by the Chicago-based band Tortoise. Released in 1996 by Thrill Jockey Records, Millions... is renowned as a groundbreaking album for post-rock; an uncredited review from Outersound.com declares that not long after the album's release, the group was "hailed as godfathers of the American 'post-rock' movement".[9] In 2006 and 2008 the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series. The album also appears in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The album's title comes from[citation needed] a phrase used in the Jehovah's Witness faith in the 1920s.[10][11] It is, for instance, the title of an essay by Joseph Franklin Rutherford, who was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society.

Track listing

All tracks written by Tortoise with the exception of a portion of "The Taut and Tame," written by Bundy K. Brown

No. Title Length
1. "Djed"   20:57
2. "Glass Museum"   5:27
3. "A Survey"   2:52
4. "The Taut and Tame"   5:01
5. "Dear Grandma and Grandpa"   2:49
6. "Along the Banks of Rivers"   5:50

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[14]

Tortoise
Technical personnel
  • John McEntire - producer
  • Dan Osborn - layout assistance and computer magic
  • Roger Seibel - mastering
  • Tortoise - sleeve design

References

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