TNT (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = TNT
Type = Album
Artist = Tortoise


Released = March 10, 1998
Recorded = Nov. 1996 - Nov. 1997
Genre = Post-Rock
Indie
Experimental
Jazz
Length = 64:48
Label = Thrill Jockey
Producer = John McEntire
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:86820r6ay48n link]
*Pitchfork (9.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22630-tnt link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tortoise/albums/album/230069/review/5941937/tnt link]
Last album = "Millions Now Living Will Never Die"
(1996)
This album = "TNT"
(1998)
Next album = "Standards"
(2001)

"TNT" is a 1998 album by Tortoise. The cover art is simply a doodle made by a band member on a CD-R cover insert during the recording sessionsFact|date=April 2008.

"Jetty" is an alternate version of 1997 song "La Jetée" by Tortoise's jazzier sister group, Isotope 217. (Both songs took their name from landmark experimental film" La Jetée.)

Track listing

# "TNT" – 7:33
# "Swung from the Gutters" – 5:52
# "Ten-Day Interval" – 4:44
# "I Set My Face to the Hillside" – 6:08
# "The Equator" – 3:42
# "A Simple Way to Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" – 3:33
# "The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls" – 5:38
# "Four-Day Interval" – 4:45
# "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ, and Beethoven There Were Women and Men" – 7:29
# "Almost Always Is Nearly Enough" – 2:42
# "Jetty" – 8:21
# "Everglade" – 4:21