You know you’ve got a good album on your hand, when you really have a problem choosing which song to post. I’ve listened to 4 songs in a row for 3 times yet it’s still a close call, and I haven’t decided.

WGoP are a trio from Portland that has Curtis Knapp on piano, Adrian Orange (aka Thanksgiving) on brushed drums and Davis Lee Hooker on double bass. The music has elements of post rock in it, but no guitars so how is it possible to call it rock? It has jazz and piano music in it as well and no vocals, and a great trumpet solo on a track that can be my anthem song, once I earn enough money to buy a tropical island and found my own country! (unfortunately you’ve got to buy the album to listen to that song as I didn’t include it!)

but I guess the best description is done by the label Marriage records :

The music is Satie-like in it’s mercurial deliberation, a sort of “old school” instrumental improvisation but not lawless, and sometimes verges on the bar room ragtime: inspirational elevator music, filmic rhythmic furniture music.

Well the music sounds old sometimes(not dated though) , but not 1980 old, it’s 1880 old. I don’t know I haven’t been to Portland (or the US for that matter), but I feel these guys seem to be playing the soundtrack of Portland’s forgotten times. Great, moody and heartfelt music, that very much suit the gray skies we have here today.

The Watery Graves of Portland - The News
The Watery Graves of Portland - Three White Men Rowing
The Watery Graves of Portland - An American in America
The Watery Graves of Portland - The Glass is Low
Thanksgiving - Dead Deer and Other Animals