Trampled by Turtles going ‘fully analog’ with surprise album dropping next week

Never one to bill itself as an old-timey string band, Trampled by Turtles is taking a decidedly old-school approach with a record set to drop next week. The Minnesota acoustic sextet surprised fans Tuesday with news it has a new LP, titled “Good Dogs,” ready for release Nov. 20. More surprising than when it’s coming out is how . The album is getting a “fully analog” release, only to be available on vinyl or cassette for the first two months of its release. What’s more, songs are being sent only to public radio stations for airing. They will not be available on streaming platforms until January. “We’re gonna slow down and listen on the radio or on a turntable [or] cassette deck,” the band wrote in its announcement post . Advertisement View post on Instagram Putting its banjo and fiddle where its mouth is, Trampled took a slower, trickier and pricier all-analog approach to recording “Good Dogs.” Songs were captured on reel-to-reel tape instead of the long-modernized approach of digital recording. In a separate note to go with the record, Trampled frontman Dave Simonett expounded on why and how the band was so intent on an analog approach. “The making of our new album came about as a response to, in my humble opinion, an excess of modernity in recording,” the singer/guitarist wrote, going on to pinpoint the exact recording location: his living room in Minneapolis. “Easily my favorite recording experience,” he added.