With Touch the Tortoise band members — 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. Recorded between the three cities — Los Angeles Portland and Chicago — Touch is the result of an intentional effort by these five musicians to reconnect recenter and reinvigorate their sound for what is perhaps the group’s most diverse release to date.