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Album Review

Port O'Brien
Threadbare TDB Records

Article written by Paul M - Nov 15, 2009

Port O'Brien - Threadbare

Obviously nothing dictates the mood of a recording more significantly than the events impacting lives of the performers at the time of creating it. You really don’t need to ask Justin Vernon how chuffed he was when he conceived Bon Iver’s For Ever, Forever Ago for example. So, as Port O’Brien’s Threadbare was produced only a few months after the younger brother of key band member Cambria Goodwin had passed away, melancholia understandably oozes from every groove of this, their second long player. With the subsequent obsession with love, death and loss, it’s unsurprisingly all tender, pensive and most of all, sad, delivered almost entirely at a respectful gentle pace. You’d have to have a heart of stone not to be affected by it all and the tear stained haunting folk is at times quite beautiful, particularly the two lovely versions of High Without the Hope that bookend the album, the strident My Will is Good and the twangy Oslo Campfire. Wonderful stuff but sitting through all forty five minutes of it without seeking either the Samaritans or something a bit livelier to jitterbug to is another matter.

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