The deluxe edition features 15 additional tracks: rare remixes, live versions and instrumentals.
On their sixth album, the increasingly prolific neo-psych outfit Portugal. The Man look to the past for inspiration on In the Mountain in the Cloud. The album represents a breakthrough for the band on a couple of levels, the most obvious of which is their signing to major-label Atlantic, which comes as a big step up after years of quietly working their way through the indie circuit. The other is the less tangible artistic breakthrough. With such a rigorous release schedule, Portugal. The Man has been a band that listeners have been able to watch hone their craft step by step, slowly tinkering and adjusting things and growing into a band that’s not only hit their stride, but is in full…
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Portugal. The Man, the genre-agnostic outfit led by the multi-faceted John Gourley, is changing before our very eyes.
Not in the way this band has been since they emerged in the mid-2000s, consistently shifting sonic terrains throughout their wonderfully colorful discography, but on a more personal level. Gourley is now a father, fully independent after leaving Atlantic following the band’s 2023 LP, and set up in a home studio, free to welcome in any number of collaborators and to curate a spacious environment for his lofty indie rock visions to flourish. With a new studio, outlook on life, and a catalog that has garnered critical acclaim, the latest Portugal. The Man LP finds Gourley at an interesting, scary, and exhilarating moment in his career.