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GAVIN PORTLAND - Views of distant towns

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: 12 Tonar 12T036 Release Year: 2006 Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "....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 alias 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." [label description]