Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise

Millions Now Living Will Never Die, the second studio album from Chicago's Tortoise, came out on Thrill Jockey on January 30, 1996, recorded in their hometown with John McEntire producing. The title is lifted from an old Jehovah's Witnesses slogan of the 1920s, one that Watch Tower president Joseph Franklin Rutherford used to head an essay, which suits a record that seems to be preaching some strange new gospel. David Pajo and Bundy K. Brown were both in the ranks that year.

This is where the rock band gets taken apart and rebuilt: krautrock pulse, dub space, minimalist repetition, jazz and electronics all folded into one another until the seams disappear. It's the kind of record that got Tortoise credited with the rise of the Chicago school of post-rock in the 1990s.

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