:: NEXT SHOW ::
Saturday November 17th, 2007
Renegade Theater
222 E. Superior St. - Duluth.MN
06pm | All Ages | $5
with...
Corporate Thunder
United Men Divide
Melodramatics
Sight Like December
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:: INTERVIEWS ::
- Perfect Sound Radio (interview w/ Paul)
- High Plains Drifter Magazine Issue number 1 (pg. 16)
:: PRESS / MEDIA ::
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.
- Now Like Photographs - Radio K 106.5/100.7 FM | 770 AM
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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.
- Mark Oberg ( Eyes + Hands Festival Co-Founder)
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...Instrumental. Powerful. Sometimes a band with no singer says more than having one would. This is that experience.
- Rift Magazine
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...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.
- Transistor Mag
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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.
- The Silent Ballet
:: CONTACT US : :
We're always looking to play shows, or help touring bands set up shows in the Duluth/Superior area. Send us an eMail or message us here on MySpace.
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:: OTHER PROJECTS : :
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* Cars & Trucks
* Horse & Rider
Jesse -
* Equal Xchange
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