Portico share new single '101' (ft Joe Newman of ALT-J ) and European Tour
Welcome to Portico. You may think you know where you are, but you don’t, you really don’t. Put aside your preconceptions, take a deep breath, listen. Featuring the soaring voice and questing intelligence of Joe Newman (Alt-J), Portico introduce their new album Living Fields with a hauntingly soaring slice of electronic pop. Newman’s voice soars over reverb drenched piano, drum machines crisply puncturing the tension around shimmering arpeggios of synth and electric bass.
Portico are Duncan Bellamy, Milo Fitzpatrick and Jack Wyllie. Previously they were three-quarters of the highly successful, critically-acclaimed and Mercury-nominated Portico Quartet. But new album Living Fields is no continuation under a shortened name. As far as the band are concerned this is a debut, a leap into a whole new sound and way of making music.
‘101’ offers a perfect introduction to their aesthetic, Alt-J’s Joe Newman is utterly compatible because, like all the vocalists on the album, he is not a guest so much as a friend. He and Jack Wyllie grew up on the same road in Southampton, and have been friends ever since. Joe says “I grew up listening to Portico and at Uni I introduced their music to a younger Alt-J. It’s such a pleasure to be collaborating on this new album and I'm looking forward to performing with them down the line!”
Perhaps it’s this connection that accounts for the intimacy of the piece, on a song which also manages to be epic, one of those strange, unlikely contrasts which this group, in a sustained burst of creativity, manage to achieve again and again.
Tracklist:
- Living Fields
- 101 *
- Where You Are
- Atacama *
- Colour Fading
- Dissolution
- Bright Luck
- Brittle *
- Memory Of Newness
* ft Joe Newman ft Jamie Woon ft Jono McCleery
Tour dates: Announcing 4th Feb,
- 13- Mar Guildford, Boiler Room
- 16 - Mar Ramsgate, Music Hall
- 18-Mar London Village, Underground
- 17-Apr Milan, Teatro Parenti
- 18-Apr Bristol, Colston Hall
- 19-Apr Brighton, The Haunt
- 20-Apr Dublin, Whelans
- 21-Apr Leeds, The Wardrobe
- 22-Apr Sheffield, O2 Academy
- 23-Apr Norwich, The Waterfront
- 25-Apr Nottingham, Rock City Basement
- 26-Apr Manchester, Academy 3
- 27-Apr Liverpool, Kazimier
- 28-Apr Birmingham, Hare and Hounds
- 05-May Prague, Lucerna Music Bar
- 06-May Warsaw, Basen
- 07-May Gdansk, Fabryka Batycki
- 11-May Hamburg, Übel & Gefährlich
- 12-May Mannheim, Alte Feuerwache
- 13-May Leipzig, Conne Island
- 14-May Cologne, Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld
- 15-May Basel, Kaserne
- 16-May Rome, Spring Attitude Festival
- 17-May Vienna, Chelsea
- 18-May Paris, Café de la Danse
- 19-May Ris Orangis, Le Plan 2
- 20-May Strasbourg, La Laiterie
- 22-May Brussels, AB
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