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Clash 8/10 'Terrain' gives us a band at the peak of its powers, confident in its ability, willing to take risks but always delivering. This may be Portico Quartet’s finest album yet.
Mojo 4/5 Retaining the spooky cinematics that are Portico's stock-in-trade, Terrain's meld of Midori Takada and Sun Ra teases and tricks its way to mantric embrace.
Loud and Quiet 7/10 To their credit, on Terrain Portico Quartet manage to steer just clear of such Fast Show ‘nice’-ness by taking painstaking care with every part of the record, meaning that if at first it might seem a little too polite for some, close, repeated listens will be richly rewarded.
Pop Matters 8/10 It’s an album where grand ambitions and warm sounds meet at an opportune intersection where texture ultimately overrules genre.
Uncut 7/10 The “terrain” explored is both external and internal, tranquil and troubling.
