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Puerto Muerto - See you in hell (2005)
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Puerto Muerto - See You In Hell (2005)
Country Rock-Indie Rock | MP3 VBR avg.225 Kbps | Covers Included | 80 Mb
Label: Fire Records | Language: English
Country Rock-Indie Rock | MP3 VBR avg.225 Kbps | Covers Included | 80 Mb
Label: Fire Records | Language: English
| “ | Singer Christa Meyer and instrumentalist Tim Kelley began collaborating after a chance meeting on the street. They soon were married, and started crafting uniquely smarmy and intelligent acoustic rock that covered everything from alternative country to German cabaret to Spanish folk. The band's bizarre sounds were eventually brought to the attention of Fire Records, who released their debut Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore in 2002. Most of See You in Hell’s tracks can be visualized in stark black and white images with added splashes of color brought on by the diverse instrumentation and darkly weird lyrics. “Tennessee” (also featured on last year’s Stars EP) seduces the listener with its drum triggers, rumbling bass, and intermittent, hollow-sounding trumpet blasts. Meyer’s dusky vocals invite you to go “for a ride with me” where she threatens to “show you what it means,” the mere thought of which makes my skin crawl. In contrast, the anti-war rocker, “Chapayev’s Machine Gunners,” sends Kelley off to “fight some reason /I don’t exactly know,” where more than likely he’ll be “fed to the dogs and whores.” Not a particularly upbeat message, considering the song’s galloping, toe-tapping beat, but thankfully Puerto Muerto eschews ruddy-cheeked optimism in favor of seedy, tragic eroticism and doomed wistfulness. I keep revisiting this theme of traditionalism because I feel as if Puerto Muerto is trying to tell me a story – and I worry that the ending won’t be so happy. “Give Me a Penny” sways beneath tempestuous, black waves, and “Crimson Beauty” couples gentle harmonies with thigh-slapping beats. Meyer’s bejeweled voice (recalling Portishead’s Beth Gibbons at times, minus the range) is at times unsettlingly hypnotic, as in “Babylon,” where echoing surf guitars and what literally sounds like tools clanking together add to the creeping fear. Taking its Romanian freak show to a new level in “Hangman’s Song,” Meyer and Kelley both sing, “I pray your neck breaks when the rope is taught /pray your mother isn’t there to see it,” as their black and scarlet piano takes a tumble down the stairs and falls out into nothingness, a black void, segueing wonderfully into the traditionalist, call-and-response rag, “Walking Boss.” I’m afraid if I take off these headphones and emerge from this closet, the sunlight literally will evict my eyeballs from my skull. I can’t face the honking horns and the swooping birds just yet. I’m content here, alone in the dark, in Hell with Puerto Muerto. I’ll see you there. | ” |
| “ | Tracks 1. Atlantic City 2. Tennessee 3. Chapayev's Machine Gunners 4. Hangman's Song 5. Walking Boss 6. Washtenaw River 7. Give Me a Penny 8. Crimson Beauty 9. Babylon 10. Burning Leaves 11. Mango 12. Stars | ” |
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