Record (Re)Collection: Scott McCloud Of Paramount Styles/Girls Against Boys On Tortoise’s “Millions Now Living Will Never Die”
For this installment of Record (Re)Collection, we’ve got an essay from Scott McCloud, singer/guitarist for Paramount Styles and Girls Against Boys. In his column, Scott talks about Tortoise’s 1996 full-length Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Paramount Styles’ debut album Failure American Style is out now via Touch & Go, so be sure to pick it up.
Tortoise-Millions Now Living Will Never Die
By Scott McCloud
I was on a European “press tour” in the winter of 1996; a mission to talk a good game about my band Girls Against Boys’ upcoming House of GVSB album. When I was in Berlin, someone at our German distributor handed me an advance copy of the Tortoise album Millions Now Living Will Never Die. I tucked the thin CD into my travel bag, along with the growing pile, figuring I’d “get to it” eventually (probably never).
A couple mornings later, I was waiting for a flight out of Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport, an old Nazi-era airport close to the city center. Dawn was just breaking and I was sitting in a lounge looking out the window at the blue morning light across the tarmac. Bored, I slipped the CD into my Walkman and hit play. I don’t know if it was something about the scene being somehow absolutely ideal but when the first few minutes of the first song “Djed” played, it struck me as so perfect to the times, even to the transient setting of the antiquated airport lounge I was sitting in.
Continue reading Scott’s column after the jump!
