Port O'brien
Threadbare

I caught wind of this loosey goosey California collective a few years back following the release of their sublimely subtle debut All We Could Do Was S...

The cover for Threadbare, the third album by Oakland-based Port O'Brien, is a shot of a flowery hillside disappearing into the fog. It perfectly c...

Highlight is the gently-clambering ‘My Will Is Good’; its riff of surging, ghostly humming is simply mesmeric, and the lyrics are unsettlingly accusat...

By any standard, Port O’Brien’s sophomore LP, Threadbare, is a somber, introspective work, but it seems even more so when compared to the ...

Deep into the promotional cycle for All We Could Do Was Sing last summer, Port O’Brien played a show in East London with the similarly buzzed-about Do...

Both blessing and curse for the west coast folk-pop band Port O'Brien is that they do have that one special song: the explosion of joy that is I Woke ...

After the glorious All We Could Do Was Sing, album two sees them retreat into a more sombre, stripped-down sound. Although the likes of Sour Milk and ...

When Port O’Brien first emerged, they had something of Arcade Fire about them; this time, though, the rousing, euphoric choruses are largely abs...

Port O'Brien first snagged some online buzz several years ago with "I Woke Up Today", a loose, rickety, communal sing-along that played out like the p...

Manchmal muss man Prioritäten setzen. Vor allem wenn man seine künstlerische Geburt einem Fischerboot in Alaska verdankt und der Sehnsucht n...