Puerto Muerto - I Was a Swallow

  by Adrian Huggins

published: 19 / 4 / 2008

---

This fourth album from Chicago-based duo Puerto Muerto is a very weird mix of folk, country and punk and has a really dark Gothic edge to it. While the music is quite restrained and never over the top, the imagery it conjures up is something that verges on the truly unique. With female and male vocals from Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer, it sounds like the soundtrack to a Tarantino film telling of murderers in love and their lonely journey through the world. The opening track, ‘Be My Husband’, tells of the ever lasting love between its twisted characters. This really sums up Puerto Muerto's whole sound and sentiment, that of the classic romance of outcasts. On ‘Hello Moscow’ Meyer sounds a little like Courtney Love in her lead vocals. This slow burning song sounds like something from a Western with a hint of Russian folk music added to it. This type of sound defines this unique duo as they flit regularly between styles without losing any focus. ‘Gone’ and ‘Best Friend’ finds the band sounding between Johnny Cash and Queens of the Stone Age at their darkest and most stripped down. Again both tracks could come from the very darkest Western film you might ever think of. There are a lot of intriguing styles on here all melted together. It is one of those albums that sounds exactly like a soundtrack to a story that appears to be happening throughout the course of the album.

Track Listing:-

1 I Will Know
2 Gone Too
3 I Like You
4 Be My Husband
5 Low
6 Hello Moscow
7 Gone
8 Best Friend
9 Twilight
10 Merry People

Label Links:-

https://twitter.com/firerecordings
https://www.facebook.com/Firerecords
http://www.firerecords.com/
https://firerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://instagram.com/fire_records/
https://www.youtube.com/user/FirerecordsUK

Post A Comment

---

Comment

Name

your name

Location

ie London, UK

Submit

Check box to submit

Adam Coxon
Adrian Janes
Adrian P
Amanda J. Window
Andrew Twambley
Anthony Dhanendran
Benjamin Howarth
Carl Bookstein
Chris O'Toole
Cila Warncke
Daniel Cressey
Darren Aston

Dastardly
Dave Goodwin
Denzil Watson
Dixie Ernill
Dominic B. Simpson
Eoghan Lyng
Fiona Hutchings
Harry Sherriff
Helen Tipping
Jamie Rowland
John Clarkson
Julie Cruickshank

Keith How
Kimberly Bright
L. Paul Mann
Lisa Torem
Maarten Schiethart
Malcolm Carter
Marie Hazelwood
Mark Rowland
Nick Dent-Robinson
Nicky Crewe
Owen Peters
Richard Lewis

Shirley Procter
Spencer Robertshaw
Steve Kinrade
Steve Miles
Tommy Gunnarsson
Zena Grieg