Tortoise "Touch" Disturbed "Sickness (25th Anniversary)" entering the Billboard 200 at

entering the Billboard 200 at #3 – Martinez’s highest chart placement thus far – with further debuts at #1 on the Alternative album chart

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Tortoise "Touch" Disturbed "Sickness (25th Anniversary)" entering the Billboard 200 atTortoise's New 2025 Studio Album Touch on LP. With Touch, the Tortoise bandmembers Jeff Parker, Dan Bitney, Douglas McCombs, John Herndon, and John McEntire harness their collectivist songwriting approach, a slightly anarchistic but resolutely egalitarian process where ideas triumph over ego towards an abstracted muscularity. While there are still excursions into the dusky, elegantly gnarled jazz ambience that flourished on landmark works like