Tortoise

Bouncing between jazz-fusion, krautrock and dub, long-running instrumental rockers Tortoise have become more unpredictable with age. Though members of the Chicago-based group have recently moved away from the city, the band reconvened to complete ‘The Catastrophist’, their first album in nearly six years. For hardcore fans, the twisting guitar riffs, complex rhythms and criss-crossing synth melodies won’t come as a surprise – for those unfamiliar with the band, it has a tendency to sound groundbreaking.