{"id":19442,"date":"2016-04-05T11:04:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T11:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=19442"},"modified":"2016-04-05T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T11:04:16","slug":"new-portals-share-gorgeous-harmonies-with-new-song-groove-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/04\/new-portals-share-gorgeous-harmonies-with-new-song-groove-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Portals Share Gorgeous Harmonies With New Song ‘Groove Boy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Belfast duo New Portals follow up, ‘Skyline’, and ‘Do It Right’, with new track ‘Groove Boy’.<\/h4>\n

‘Groove Boy’ has been described by The Guardian (who incidentally made them their band of the week last Friday):<\/p>\n

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\u201cone of the finest R&B-tinged male-female duos we\u2019ve heard since AlunaGeorge\u2026 \u2018Groove Boy\u2019 is crystalline pop with a divine melody, a keyboard pattern that gives \u201ctwinkling\u201d a good name, and celestial sighs from Mrs Aicken that make Aluna Francis sound like Aretha Franklin. The milieu is the discotheque but the mood is dolorous. Immaculate use of finger-clicks, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Check out the video, which was released on 30 March.<\/p>\n

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