"Despite their Slayer shirts and straight edge tattoos, Gavin Portland provided anything but a short sharp shock. What they did play was much more impressive: taking the free-thinking punk of Refused and crossing it with the slow-burning heaviness of Neurosis, they showed they knew how to work the stage as well as the room. Their anarchist politics might be a symptom of their youthful angst and idealism, but that same fire is what prompted them to produce an electrifying, uncompromising set. Hopefully their next album, produced by Converge´s Kurt Ballou, will give them more exposure. Although, to be fair, they´re already turning heads on the underground circuit abroad."

From Reykjavík Grapevine.