Mogwai, Hum, Mono, AppleSeed Cast, I am the Slow Dancing Umbrella, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, American Football, Fair-Weather Friend, Explosions in the Sky, Placebo, A Silver Mt. Zion, Jealous Sound, Both, Saetia, Radiohead, Tristeza, Cursive, the Cure, Set Fire to Flames, Engine Down, Pele, Blood Brothers, Low, Pedro the Lion, Four Hundred Years, Johnny Cash, the Clash, Deftones, Texas is the Reason, Murder City Devils, Twelve Hour Turn, My Bloody Valentine, the Smiths, Danzig, Raised Fist, Misfits, Nirvana, Mineral, Seam, Mars Volta, Words to a Film Score, Book of Dead Names, Braid, Hot Cross, the Dames, Joy Division, Russian Circles, Minus the Bear, Sigur Ros, Farewell Tour, Love Lost but Not Forgotten, Pelican, Castor, If Thousands, Welcome the Plague Year, Sleepy Time Trio, Lawrence Arms, Mercury Program, Sharks Keep Moving, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Ten Grand, The Blow, Icollide, Helmet, City of Caterpilar, Saxon Shore, Canine Heart Sounds. . .
Portrait of a Drowned Man "Portrait of a Drowned Man"| CD
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Track Listing:
01. Bright Lights on Pale Faces
02. May 14th, 1904
03. The Marina is Too Shallow
04. Cout to Ten in a Snowstorm
05. All the Trees are Dead
06. No Movement
100 limited edition cover inserts hand screen printed on chip board with white, green and black inks. Designed by PoaDM guitarist Paul Connolly.
Bringing experimental, cathartic, epiphany-inducing post-rock to the Twin Ports has been the unyielding mission of Portrait of a Drowned Man. Carving out an instrumental niche in a songwriter-saturated environment has lead them to a busy schedule of all-ages shows, Twin Cities gigs, and sought after opening slots.
- Duluth Homegrown Music Festival
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PoaDM is an amazing band which completely disregards the pretentiousness of some post-rock bands by providing an honest, beautiful experience. These aren't 20 minute long songs featuring every instrument they can find, it's four guys playing exactly what they want.
- Paper City
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The Marina is Too Shallow, ranked 20 in our Top 24 Instrumental Songs of 2007.
- Now Like Photographs / 770 Radio K
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PoaDM is quickly solidifying itself as one of Duluth's most consistently rewarding acts.
We feel like idiots for not finding out about Portrait of a Drowned Man until now. Seriously, the best thing we've heard from the Minnesota instrumental scene thus far.
Portrait Of A Drowned Man's lush, powerful post-rock barrage tends to leave onlookers slack jawed. Portraits towering arrangements shift on a dime, in the mode of Mogwai or Explosions In The Sky - from the heartbreakingly delicate to the intensely visceral - all without the crutch of vocals.
...Joining Cloud Cult for the show will be Duluth's own Portrait of a Drowned Man, perhaps one of the finest gems in the Dululth rock scene.
...the highlight of the night will be when local post-rock/indie gods Portrait of a Drowned Man take stage to unleash turrent of rock goodness.
- Ripsaw News
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Fair-Weather Friend and Portrait of a Drowned Man team up Friday night at Pizza Luce to snap all the sniveling Twin Ports indie kids out of their end of winter depressions - and not a moment too soon. Rarely does a musical act evoke the gut wrenching, awe inducing reactions that a Basquiat canvas or the writings of Vladimir Nabokov never fail to do. Fortunately, for the culture starved children of this cold northern tundra, Fair-Weather Friend and Portrait of a Drowned Man - indie rock super heros if ever there were ones - come pretty damn close. Subtle, powerful and soaring don't give these band's incredible music enough credit.
To their credit, although PoaDM claim that they sound like "Explosions In The Sky, Sigur Ros, Mogwai and Mono" (who doesn't?), they have succeeded in giving themselves at least some element of individuality (although there are definite hints of all four in their music). They aren't entirely post-rock-by-numbers, with some tracks taking the quiet-loud approach and others taking the form of guitar-based soundscapes. For me, the highlight of the album is the second track, 'Give A Poet A Telescope,' in which a short yet undeniably effective crescendo is sandwiched between ambient guitar lines infused with harmonics - think The Album Leaf meets Mogwai, for instance.
dudes! the CD release show was great! we were all bummed to not see you guys play (even the dude who runs Eclipse)! but these things happen. so lets set something up soon... eh? we sure would love to play up there in the next few months. keep in touch.
Hey! How are you? So I am suppose to be in WI at that time, but I am going to see if I can put it up a little bit, so that I could be home Wednesday night, just in time for your show. Because I have been craving PoaDM. :)
