Portico Quartet

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Snappy grooves with chattery percussion patterns underpin cinematic themes here, as Portico find themselves a contemporary sound, writes <strong>John Fordham</strong>

Although they’ll still be filed under jazz, Portico Quartet’s third album takes them even closer to the ambient and trance they’ve been edging towards since they attracted attention in 2007 after the release of their Mercury-nominated debut, Knee Deep in the North Sea. It’s partly to do with the departure of founder member Nick Mulvey and his replacement with keyboard/percussion player Keir Vine, and also a natural progression.