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The Brave and the Bold
Rock · 2006 · 10 tracks

The Brave and the Bold

Tortoise

A collision of Chicago post-rock precision and Will Oldham's fragile folk. Classic songs are dismantled and rebuilt into murky, hypnotic, and unsettling new shapes.

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It's like your favorite classic rock songs were melted down and poured into a post-rock mold.

A tense, nocturnal meditation that feels both mathematically precise and emotionally frayed.

The Brave and the Bold · vs · Tortoise
Gentle+4.0σ

The vocals lean far further into gentle than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Cravo é Canela
02
Thunder Road
03
It’s Expected I’m Gone
04
Daniel
05
Love Is Love
06
Pancho
07
That’s Pep!
08
Some Say (I Got Devil)
09
Cavalry Cross
10
On My Own
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way Thunder Road is stripped of its anthemic glory and rebuilt as a slow, synth-heavy meditation.
The jarring, mechanical percussion that underpins the otherwise fragile vocal on It's Expected I'm Gone.
The slow-motion unraveling of the guitar melody during the climax of Cavalry Cross.
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