{"id":18131,"date":"2021-09-04T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18131"},"modified":"2021-09-04T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T13:22:13","slug":"portico-quartet-detail-new-album-monument-and-share-first-single-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/castthedice.org\/?p=18131","title":{"rendered":"Portico Quartet detail new album, Monument<\/em>, and share first single ‘Impressions’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Portico Quartet<\/a> are on a roll this year. Following the release of Terrain<\/em> back in May, the outfit of Duncan Bellamy and Jack Wyllie have announced the release of a new album titled Monument<\/em>. Both albums were recorded at the same sessions but whereas Terrain<\/em> reflects a darker time as the pandemic swept the globe, the upcoming album looks ahead in an optimistic way. Speaking about Monument<\/em>, Wyllie comments:<\/p>\n

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“It’s possibly our most direct album to date. It’s melodic, structured and there’s an economy to it that is very efficient. There’s not much searching or wastage within the music itself, it is all finalised ideas, precisely sculpted and presented as a polished artefact.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bellamy continues:<\/p>\n

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“Monument sits somewhere between our albums Portico Quartet and Art in the Age of Automation. It has perhaps a more overtly electronic edge to its sound \u2013 there are more synthesisers and electronic elements than we have used before and the music is often streamlined and rhythmic”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Monument<\/em> will see the light of day on November 12th through Gondwana Records<\/a> and ahead of it, they’ve shared the first stunning and shimmering single, ‘Impressions’. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n