Formed in 2005 around the talents of Van Pierszalowski, Cambria Goodwin, <a href="spotify:artist:0T0HuEmQHT1O1tMsDJcE5H">Caleb Nichols</a>, and Joshua Barnhart, California's Port O'Brien occupy the same idiosyncratic alternative folk/indie rock landscape as <a href="spotify:artist:4tBNwdhdWAXGzzaPTp9dRE">Jason Molina</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2EEw2tt8AJcH9qXUeB96Oc">Will Oldham</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3inCNiUr4R6XQ3W43s9Aqi">Pavement</a>. The various bandmembers have day jobs that find them working long hours in bakeries, as well as the fishing boats and salmon canneries in and around Kodiak Island, Alaska; the group's debut album for the American Dust label (The Wind and the Swell) was therefore aptly named, drawing on influences as disparate as <a href="spotify:artist:6v8FB84lnmJs434UJf2Mrm">Neil Young</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5o206eFLx38glA2bb4zqIU">Bright Eyes</a>. The similarly themed Threadbare arrived in 2009. ~ James Christopher Monger, Rovi