Port O'Brien
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Port O'Brien are an American musical group combining elements of acoustic, folk and indie rock.
They are named after a bay featuring a now-abandoned cannery on Kodiak Island where founder member Van Pierszalowski's parents met. They started out as a folk music duo of Cambria Goodwin and Van Pierszalowski while Cambria was living in Cambria, California and Van was living in Oakland. After Cambria moved closer to Oakland they added a rhythm section composed of Caleb Nichols and Joshua Barnhart.
The band has toured nationally with artists such as Nada Surf, Bright Eyes and The Cave Singers and toured Europe with Modest Mouse, as well as receiving favourable reviews from Pitchfork Media,[1] Allmusic,[2] and The Times.[3] M. Ward named Port O'Brien his "favorite new band".[4]
To date the band has released three albums; a compilation of self-recorded and early tracks called The Wind and the Swell on American Dust Records and a studio-recorded album All We Could Do Was Sing on City Slang Records, and their latest studio album Threadbare on TBD Records.
"I Woke Up Today" from the album All We Could Do Was Sing was recently used as the backing music for several Dulux Paints television advertisement in Australia.[5] The band toured Australia in February 2009 as part of the St Jerome's Laneway Festival.
Port O'Brien's new album, Threadbare, was released on 6 October 2009.
Discography
Albums
- The Wind and the Swell (compilation album) (2007), American Dust
- All We Could Do Was Sing (2007), City Slang
- Threadbare (2009), TBD Records
EPs
- Winter (2009)
Singles
- "I Woke Up Today" (2007)
- "Close the Lid" (2007)
- "The Whiskey Song" (2009)
References
- ^ The Wind and the Swell | Pitchfork
- ^ allmusic ((( The Wind and the Swell > Overview )))
- ^ Jelbert, Steve (2008) "Port O'Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing" (review), The Times, 2 August 2008
- ^ M. Ward | Pitchfork
- ^ Dulux TV ads