New Port O'Brien - "Sour Milk/Salt Water"

The nautical Bay Area rockers most recently stopped the gap between LPs with a series of seasonally themed 7"s (we sampled Winter), but now they're returning with a proper album to followup 2007's praised All We Could Do Was Sing. Its songs were recorded in two locations: a bedroom in San Fran with Papercuts' Jason Quever, then in a honest to goodness studio Los Angeles with Earlimart's Aaron Espinoza. Up first from the set is "Sour Milk/Salt Water," a steady and tuneful jangle-pop tune which hints at a slightly refined take on their windswept melodrama, ending with some studio guitar trickery that suggests it's from the L.A. session:

Port O'Brien - "Sour Milk/Salt Water" (MP3)

Threadbare is out 10/6 via TBD Records. Some tour dates before that.

08/14 - Haldern, Germany (Haldern Pop Festival)
08/16 - Leicester, UK (Summer Sundae Weekender)
08/17 - Manchester, UK @ Night and Day Cafe*
08/18 - London, UK @ Borderline
08/20 - Kiewet, Belgium (Pukkelpop Festival)
08/21 - Erfurt, Germany (Highfield Festival)
08/22 - St. Poltenm, Austria (Frequency Festival)
08/24 - Groningen, Holland (Noorderzon Festival)
08/25 - Utrecht, Holland (Tivoli)
* w/ the Papercuts

Posted at 5:29 PM by amrit in MP3
Tags: Port O'Brien

10 Comments

LOVE this new song. Psyched for the record and the tour! coming to minneapolis FINALLY

Posted by: fandom45 at 08/03/09 8:15 PM  | Reply
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beauty of a song! stoked on where the record's headed!

Posted by: sara at 08/03/09 10:34 PM  | Reply
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Soundin' great.
They were supposed to play SF with Sea Wolf but are no longer on the bill. Would rather see 'em with Papercuts, anyway.

Posted by: UnnecessaryUmlaut at 08/04/09 12:35 AM  | Reply
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dark horse to be one of 2009's best albums.

Posted by: stegasauruslover at 08/04/09 2:01 AM  | Reply
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can't wait for more! this song is gorgeously written!

Posted by: zooey at 08/04/09 5:11 AM  | Reply
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sounds like papercuts style production to me.. aka sounds amazing. can't wait for more!

Posted by: sonnie at 08/04/09 5:52 AM  | Reply
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wow. THAT is a song.

Posted by: jeremy at 08/04/09 6:06 AM  | Reply
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psyched about this song. psyched about the new album. psyched about seeing them in london in a few weeks. generally pretty psyched.

Posted by: lessthanbeingfree at 08/04/09 1:11 PM  | Reply
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Looking forward to this and the new one from Lightning Dust.

Posted by: SubSickAlien at 08/04/09 8:13 PM  | Reply
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Hey Yaaaaa! Hey Yaaaaa!

Posted by: Andre at 08/06/09 1:47 PM  | Reply
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