It's All Around You

It's All Around You is the fifth studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. It was released on Thrill Jockey in 2004.

It's All Around You
Studio album by Tortoise
Released	April 6, 2004
Studio	Soma Electronic Music Studios
Genre	Post-rock, experimental rock, jazz fusion
Length	43:52
Label	Thrill Jockey
Tortoise chronology
Standards (2001) It's All Around You (2004) The Brave and the Bold (2006)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The A.V. Club	favorable[3]
BBC Music	favorable[4]
The Guardian	[5]
Pitchfork	5.2/10[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Stylus Magazine	C[8]
The Village Voice	[9]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 68% based on 31 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

In 2011, American rapper Currensy named it one of his 25 favorite albums, stating: "I don’t do major drugs, but it was an acid trip in audio form." [10]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, Jeff Parker.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"It's All Around You"	4:09
2.	"The Lithium Stiffs"	3:59
3.	"Crest"	4:21
4.	"Stretch (You Are All Right)"	5:14
5.	"Unknown"	5:38
6.	"Dot/Eyes"	3:46
7.	"On the Chin"	5:21
8.	"By Dawn"	1:51
9.	"Five Too Many"	4:33
10.	"Salt the Skies"	4:45

Japanese edition bonus tracks

No.	Title	Length
11.	"Elmerson, Lincoln, & Palmieri"	2:36
12.	"Deltitnu"	5:49

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[11]	31
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[12]	13

References

1. "It's All Around You by Tortoise". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
2. Bush, John. "It's All Around You - Tortoise". AllMusic. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
3. Battaglia, Andy (April 5, 2004). "Tortoise: Its All Around You". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
4. Marsh, Peter (2004). "Tortoise - It's All Around You - Review". BBC Music. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
5. Lynskey, Dorian (April 1, 2004). "Tortoise, It's All Around You". The Guardian. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
6. DiCrescenzo, Brent (April 7, 2004). "Tortoise: It's All Around You". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
7. Randall, Mac (April 21, 2004). "Tortoise: It's All Around You". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 5, 2010. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
8. Schepper, Ron (April 6, 2004). "Tortoise - It's All Around You". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on February 15, 2005. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
9. Christgau, Robert (2004-05-05). "Anti-Gravitational Boots". The Village Voice.
10. Ahmed, Insanul (July 5, 2011). "Curren$y's 25 Favorite Albums: Tortoise, It's All Around You (2004)". Complex. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
11. "Tortoise - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 8, 2017.
12. "Tortoise - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 8, 2017.

External links

• It's All Around You at Discogs (list of releases)