I recently came across this band via Stereogum. Their music video for "I Woke Up Today" (which you can see at the Stereogum link) was adorable, brightly colored and FULL of Whimsy--GOD do I love me some damn whimsy.
The aforementioned song is also really, really, super catchy and strong from beginning to end. It's kind of like a mix of Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene to me. Except this time Canada is not involved.
Port O'Brien reside in the Bay Area, but the heavy influence of seafaring references that you will notice i.e. "Fisherman's Son," "Stuck on a Boat," stem from the summer time travels that Vocalist and guitarist Van Pierszalowski experiences when he returns to his roots as an actual Fisherman's son in Kodiak Island in Alaska.
His adorable wife who sings and plays banjo, keyboard, and mandolin, goes north, too, as Head Baker at the Larsen Bay cannery.
Spending so much time apart from each other must also take it's toll, thus is the sad, love-strained life that always makes the best musicians. See: Cuomo, Rivers-- Blue, Pinkerton
Check out the entire Port O'Brien album, All We Could Do Was Sing on me MUXTAPE.
You can also catch Port O'Brien on Friday, August 15th at Union Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
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