01. I Should Hide All Thier Bricks
02. When Streetlights Suddenly Stop
03. Breathing Is Hard Work
04. The Yesterday Code
05. A Cool Way To Hold Hands
06. This Is My Body, This Is The Blood
07. Watch Out For The Bears
08. This Ain't The Dakota
09. With A White Picket Fence
YEAR: 2007
COUNTRY: Iceland
GENRE: Rock, Screamo, Metal.
...but sometimes there is some sort of life in the lifeless body. Gavin Portland is a true example of exactly that! This is just the type of band that shows us how important it is to believe and trust our own jud
gment and capability to attain our goals. But at the same time Gavin Portland turns everything upside down by mixing hard rock with indie while screaming their lungs out.
Gavin Portland’s sound comes straight from the heart and ’Views of Distant Towns’ is barbed progressive punk rock – an altogether dedicated album from the young Icelandic hardcore scene. The band’s clear musical inspirations come from bands like Shellac, DC hardcore, Slint, and Drive Like Jehu. We are talking hardcore punk rock with remnants of indie melancholy.
Before releasing their debut album on 12 Tónar, they themselves released the EP’s ’The End of Every Minute’ (2005) and ‘...tell us how it ended, tell us how we died’ (2005). On 12 Tónar you also find the two first solo albums of guitarist and singer Thórir under the alia
s My Summer as a Salvation Soldier. Here he delivers heart-wrenching and personal singer/songwriting of the intimate kind, whereas Gavin Portland gets intimate in a whole other knock-about way.
British rock magazine Kerrang picked Gavin Portland out as one of the three best bands playing Iceland Airwaves 2006. ‘Views of Distant Towns’ is a progressive rock album and it’s hard to believe it’s Gavin Portland’s debut.
gment and capability to attain our goals. But at the same time Gavin Portland turns everything upside down by mixing hard rock with indie while screaming their lungs out.Gavin Portland’s sound comes straight from the heart and ’Views of Distant Towns’ is barbed progressive punk rock – an altogether dedicated album from the young Icelandic hardcore scene. The band’s clear musical inspirations come from bands like Shellac, DC hardcore, Slint, and Drive Like Jehu. We are talking hardcore punk rock with remnants of indie melancholy.
Before releasing their debut album on 12 Tónar, they themselves released the EP’s ’The End of Every Minute’ (2005) and ‘...tell us how it ended, tell us how we died’ (2005). On 12 Tónar you also find the two first solo albums of guitarist and singer Thórir under the alia
s My Summer as a Salvation Soldier. Here he delivers heart-wrenching and personal singer/songwriting of the intimate kind, whereas Gavin Portland gets intimate in a whole other knock-about way.British rock magazine Kerrang picked Gavin Portland out as one of the three best bands playing Iceland Airwaves 2006. ‘Views of Distant Towns’ is a progressive rock album and it’s hard to believe it’s Gavin Portland’s debut.
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Gavin Portland - Views Of Distant Towns (2006)
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