What if Kurt Weill wrote songs for Shane MacGowan? What if Maria Callas covered David Bowie and Brian Wilson produced? What if Leonard Cohen hooked up with the Bulgarian Women's Choir? Puerto Muerto's 'Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore!' an epic about swashbuckling and harlotry, is niche indie at its best. With a Spanish folk guitar meets German operatic cabaret sound, the husband and wife duo from Chicago has created a truly original debut with enough quasi-historical references to make arcane-craving hipsters beam.
Press Highlights:
Puerto Muerto are St Louis born but Chicago based husband and wife duo Tim Kelley and Christa Meyer. Theyre debut offering ‘Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore’ finished in Magnet magazines end of year list in 2002.
Heavenly - UNCUT
4/5 - ROCK SOUND
Deliciously Fucked-UP Alt-Country - TIME OUT
Beautiful Meandering, Dark & Hypnotic. Incredible!!! - HOT PRESS
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