Puerto Muerto - Songs Of Muerto County Relived

Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, Puerto Muerto is soporose and quixotic all at once.

Album Review by Neil Ferguson | 12 Dec 2006
Album title: Songs Of Muerto County Relived
Artist: Puerto Muerto
Label: Fire
On paper, it seems that Puerto Muerto are going to sound like The White Stripes. Happily, they don't. 'Songs of Muerto County Revisited', an alternative score of sorts to the original 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is, instead, a weird mixture of folk and rock. Hauntingly beautiful at times, melancholic at others, it is soporose and quixotic all at once. With a wide range of instruments at their disposal, it all comes together with the male-female harmonies of the husband and wife team. Tones of Sun Records era Johnny Cash and a little bit of Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) mix with a wide understanding of punk and folk that fuse together and create an alt-country sound that is an alternative to the norm, a little bit insecure and a whole lot screwed up. [Neil Ferguson]
Released Nov 27. http://www.ctokic.net/pm/