Puerto Muerto MP3 “Drumming For Pistols”
I’ve often thought about starting a husband and wife duo with my significant other, but then I think about how rusty organ and sloppy guitar might sound when sung by two tone-deaf lovers. Luckily, this isn’t the case for Chicago’s Puerto Muerto, which literally translates to the White Stripes in Bantu. Joking. These guys sound nothing like the Stripes. I’d hastily say, more like a petite DeVotchKa with a little more pop edge, and then think about it some more. The band, Tim Kelley & Christa Meyer, have an upcoming album, Drumming For Pistols which will drop in February via UK’s Fire Records.
“It’s strange and beautiful at the same time,” Kelley confesses. “For a lot of guys in bands, I think that music is a separate experience, a guy thing, that they compartmentalize into a different world where wives and girlfriends are not invited. For us it’s an exploration of our relationship as well as a kind of therapy that brings us together.”
If you’d like to explore their relationship by watching them perform live, they’ll be touring in the spring. Until then seek out last year’s I Was a Swallow.
Listen to Puerto Muerto – “Drumming For Pistols” (MP3)