Portico Quartet - Portico Quartet

MusicOMH“For the most part this album's music is to be basked in...” There's a sense that there's a near perfect meshing of the old and the traditional. Neither element overpowers the other...

The Line of Best Fit“It’s all so clean and clinical...” By treating most of the live instrumentation through pedals and computers and embracing, almost fully, their interest in electronic sounds, it’s left the album feeling a little lifeless...

Drowned In Sound“A superb release, each track roaming freely...” A slight change in personnel but a strong continuation and development of the group's hybrid, beguiling instrumental compositions...

BBC“A mazy, fluid, ethereal suite of chamber jazz to get properly lost in...” What this band should be acclaimed for instead is barrelling through time and genres to make bewitching mood music that’s on a par with Jaga Jazzist...

The Independent“Throbbing, cyclical rhythms, shivering string and synth parts...” In places, Portico Quartet's third album recalls old-school jazz-funk, from the chamber-jazz end of the spectrum rather than the party end...