Portico Quartet - Art in the Age of Automation

Mercury Prize-nominated Portico Quartet has always been an impossible band to pin down. Sending out echoes of jazz, electronica, ambient music and minimalism, the group created their own singular, cinematic sound over the course of three studio albums, from their 2007 breakthrough ‘Knee-Deep in the North Sea’, and 2010 John Leckie produced ‘Isla’, to the self titled record ‘Portico Quartet’ in 2012.


Recorded at Fish Factory Studios in London and mixed at Vox studios, Berlin, 2017’s Art In The Age Of Automation saw them rebooted as Portico Quartet after a brief spell as the three-piece Portico, and marked an emphatic return to form featuring timeless classics such as Endless and A Luminous Beam that build on the sound world they first explored with their eponymous 2012 release Portico Quartet, mixing the cinematic minimalism, that first made their name with contemporary jazz and electronica influences.