PORTICO has set out to create newness out of the ideas of loss and change on their current national tour.

The trio, who play Leeds Wardrobe on April 21, create music that borders on the hallucinatory.

The music is said to move forwards towards distant places, arriving somewhere between structured pop songs and a disintegrating ambience.

Featuring founder members Duncan Bellamy, Milo Fitzpatrick and Jack Wyllie, Portico are described as a diffuse blend of the sublunary and the celestial.

Reverb-drenched pianos mesh with swathes of ambient noise, while drum machines crisply puncture the air surrounded by shimmering arpeggios of synth and electric bass.

Guest singer Jono McCleery’s vocals will float high above a world of textural atmosphere.

Portico’s new album, Living Fields, has been released this month by Ninja Tunes.

Living Fields is described as an album of catharsis and redefinition, creating a profoundly emotional effect.

The group made up of three quarters of the successful, critically-acclaimed Portico Quartet, along with guest vocalists Jono McCleery, Joe Newman (Alt-J) and Jamie Woon.