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Standards is the fourth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise.[10][11] It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2001.[12]

Standards
Studio album by Tortoise
Released	February 20, 2001 (2001-02-20)
Recorded	2000
Studio	Soma Electronic Music Studio, Chicago
Genre	Post-rock, experimental rock, jazz fusion
Length	44:18
Label	Thrill Jockey
Producer	John McEntire[1]
Tortoise chronology
In the Fishtank 5 (1999) Standards (2001) It's All Around You (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[4]
Entertainment Weekly	B+[5]
NME	[6]
Pitchfork	9.2/10[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Spin	7/10[9]

Production

The album was produced using less of the studio manipulation that had been employed on previous records.[13]

Critical reception

The A.V. Club wrote that "the band is poised between capturing a momentary, malleable inspiration and shaping that moment into some timeless anthem, and as always, it chooses to dither and delay, settling for a sometimes pleasant, sometimes maddening, almost always stimulating exploration of atmospherics."[14] Entertainment Weekly called the album "mood music for post-post-moderns, both forward- and backward-looking."[5] Spin deemed it "a cohesion of styles and impulses so tight we might call it originality."[9] The New Zealand Herald called Standards "a neatly intriguing, mish-mash of instrumental rock shot through with lopsided grooves, dreamy drones, not-quite-jazz percussion and vibes, and knob-twiddling electronica rubbing up against a junk-store of old instruments - all of which somehow emerges as an accessible, tuneful, structured affair."[15]

Track listing

Personnel

Sourced from Bandcamp.[16]

Tortoise

• Jeff Parker - guitar, bass
• Dan Bitney - bass, guitar, percussion, vibes, marimba, keyboards, baritone saxophone
• Douglas McCombs - bass, bass 6, guitar, lap steel
• John Herndon - drums, vibes, keyboards, sequencing
• John McEntire - drums, modular synthesizer, ring modulator guitar, electric harpsichord, keyboards

Charts

Chart	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[17]	95
US Billboard 200[18]	200
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[19]	10

References

External links

• Standards at Discogs (list of releases)

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