Puerto Muerto

After an unforeseen encounter on the street, singer Christa Meyer and instrumentalist Tim Kelley initiated their musical partnership. The two soon wed and began producing their uniquely smarmy and intelligent acoustic rock, drawing on sources that ranged from alternative country to German cabaret to Spanish folk. Recognition of the band’s bizarre sounds eventually reached Fire Records, which issued the debut album Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore in 2002.