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The 75 Best Albums of 2021
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The 75 Best Albums of 2021

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 / 21 December 2021

Despite a global pandemic, musicians were far more active in 2021 and had time to create their finest work. It resulted in some of the best albums in years.

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Portico Quartet Explore Every Inch of the Long-form on ‘Terrain’
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Portico Quartet Explore Every Inch of the Long-form on ‘Terrain’

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 / 24 May 2021

Portico Quartet’s Terrain is where grand ambitions and warm sounds meet at an opportune intersection where texture ultimately overrules genre.

The Best Jazz Albums of 2010
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2010

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 / 8 May 2020

Jazz was working all the angles in 2010. Is there any other genre that has as much range -- from solo instruments to big bands, from instrumental to vocal, from European musicians to both North and South Americans, from truly pretty music to raucously avant-garde "noise"?

Portico: Living Fields
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Portico: Living Fields

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 / 27 April 2015
The shift from Portico Quartet to Portico wasn't an evolution; it was a dismantling, a removal of so much of the soul that once made them vital.