Portico - Living Fields

Portico - Living FieldsWhere do you start talking about a suite of recordings so concerned with the commonalities between beginnings and ends? You could start by saying that Living Fields is an album of catharsis and redefinition, born of a desire to create newness out of loss and change. You could also say that the band Portico themselves have undergone a process of ending and re beginning, but none of this quite captures what you will hear. The best thing you can do is

when R&B has no blues and hiphop is a boom bip with a shorty

his joie de vivre and his inimitable combination of tight knit funk

New Road return with the news that their second album

find a band where five out of its eight current members were there when everything started in 1994

Tove Styrke

guitar and voice

“I really focused on making this album an imaginary visual experience

shows more than anything their need for love

B side "Heaven For the Sinner"

But he has also been on record saying he wants to make ‘classical stuff for a modern generation’

There are other tracks but they weren’t up to it and that didn’t fit with this world we’re trying to create sonically

Teenage recordings orchestrated into densely layered tapestries