Millions Now Living Will Never Die

Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Studio album by Tortoise
Released	January 30, 1996
Recorded	June–September 1995
Studio	Idful Music Corporation and Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago
Genre	Post-rock
Length	42:56 (American version) 64:30 (non-American version) 68:42 (Japanese version)
Label	Thrill Jockey THRILL025
Tortoise chronology
Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters (1995) Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) TNT (1998)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Alternative Press	[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[3]
NME	8/10[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]
Select	4/5[6]
Spin	7/10[7]
Uncut	[8]
The Village Voice	B–[9]

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".^[10] 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.^[11]

The album's title is a reference to a phrase used in the Jehovah's Witness faith in the 1920s.^[12][13] 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.^[14]

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

Non-US Bonus Tracks [15]
No.	Title	Length
7.	"Gamera"	11:55
8.	"Goriri"	6:39
9.	"Restless Waters"	3:41

Japan Bonus Track [16]
No.	Title	Length
10.	"A Grape Dope"	4:12

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.^[17]

Tortoise

• Dan Bitney
• John Herndon
• Douglas McCombs
• John McEntire
• David Pajo

Technical personnel

• John McEntire - producer
• Dan Osborn - layout assistance and computer magic
• Roger Seibel - mastering
• Tortoise - sleeve design

External links

• A.D. Amorosi: The Making Of Tortoise’s Millions Now Living Will Never Die (magnetmagazine.com, 2016-02-23)

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. Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
6. Barnes, Mike (March 1996). "Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Select (69): 98.
7. Salamon, Jeff (March 1996). "Tortoise: Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Spin 11 (12): 112–13. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
8. "Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die CD". CD Universe. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
9. Christgau, Robert (May 21, 1996). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
10. Anonymous (1998). "Millions Now Living Will Never Die Review". Archived from the original on 17 March 2004. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
11. 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.
12. Shields, Michael (February 1, 2016). "Twenty Years Later: Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Across The Margin.
13. Millions Now Living Will Never Die
14. Millions Now Living Will Never Die
15. "Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
16. "Discogs: Japanese Edition". Retrieved 1 May 2014.
17. Millions Now Living Will Never Die liner notes. Wrapped in Rubber Music. 1996.