Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Millions Now Living Will Never Die
A blue and grey cover. with a school of fish
Studio album by Tortoise
Released January 30, 1996 (1996-01-30)
Recorded June–September 1995
Studio Idful Music Corporation and Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago
Genre Post-rock
Length 42:56
Label Thrill Jockey
Producer John McEntire
Tortoise chronology
Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
(1995)		 Millions Now Living Will Never Die
(1996)		 TNT
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Alternative Press5/5[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
NME8/10[4]
Record Collector[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[6]
Select4/5[7]
Spin7/10[8]
Uncut[9]
The Village VoiceB−[10]

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".[11] 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.[12]

The album's title is a reference to a phrase used in the Jehovah's Witness faith in the 1920s.[13][14] 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.[15] It was also the slogan of the evangelist Aimee Semple MacPherson.

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.[18]

Tortoise
Technical personnel

External links

References

  1. ↑ Bush, John. "Millions Now Living Will Never Die – Tortoise". AllMusic. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Alternative Press (94): 91. May 1996.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  4. ↑ "Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die". NME: 42. January 27, 1996.
  5. ↑ Pearlman, Mischa (July 2012). "Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Record Collector (403). Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  6. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  7. ↑ Barnes, Mike (March 1996). "Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Select (69): 98.
  8. ↑ Salamon, Jeff (March 1996). "Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Spin. 11 (12): 112–13. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die CD". CD Universe. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  10. ↑ Christgau, Robert (May 21, 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ Anonymous (1998). "Millions Now Living Will Never Die Review". Archived from the original on 17 March 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  12. ↑ Robert Dimery; Michael Lydon (23 March 2010). 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition. Universe. ISBN 978-0-7893-2074-2.
  13. ↑ Shields, Michael (February 1, 2016). "Twenty Years Later: Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Across The Margin.
  14. ↑ Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  15. ↑ Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  16. ↑ "Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  17. ↑ "Discogs: Japanese Edition". Retrieved 1 May 2014.
  18. ↑ Millions Now Living Will Never Die liner notes. Wrapped in Rubber Music. 1996.
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