Millions Now Living Will Never Die

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Millions Now Living Will Never Die
A blue and grey cover depicting a school of fish.
Studio album by
Tortoise
ReleasedJanuary 30, 1996 (1996-01-30)
RecordedJune–September 1995
Studio
  • Idful (Chicago)
  • Soma (Chicago)
Genre
Length42:56
LabelThrill Jockey
Tortoise chronology
Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters
(1995) 		Millions Now Living Will Never Die
(1996) 		TNT
(1998)
Singles from Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  1. "Djed"
    Released: 1996 (1996)
  2. "The Taut and Tame"
    Released: 1996 (1996)

Millions Now Living Will Never Die is the second studio album by American post-rock band Tortoise. The album was released on January 30, 1996, by Thrill Jockey.

The album's title is a reference to a phrase used in the Jehovah's Witness faith in the 1920s.[2][3] 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.[4] By March 1998, the album had sold over 50,000 copies, with 80% as CDs and the remainder as LPs.[5]

  1. ^ Stylus Staff (March 22, 2004). "Top 101–200 Favourite Albums Ever". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on February 16, 2022. Retrieved April 27, 2023. All that this record represents has basically fallen from grace rather awkwardly, and the few truly great albums of the whole Chicago Instrumental Post Rock Jazz Fusion scene...
  2. ^ Shields, Michael (February 1, 2016). "Twenty Years Later: Tortoise's Millions Now Living Will Never Die". Across The Margin.
  3. ^ Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  4. ^ Millions Now Living Will Never Die
  5. ^ Morris, Chris (March 7, 1998). "Thrill Jockey's Tortoise Finds Experimentation Instrumental". Billboard. Vol. 110, no. 10. p. 14. Retrieved January 3, 2017.