Bridge City Sinners: Here’s To The Devil (Red Marbled Translucent)

Overview:

Here’s to the Devil is the raucous debut full-length from Portland’s Bridge City Sinners, an unholy marriage of folk punk, Appalachian murder ballads, and dark cabaret. Equal parts whiskey-soaked celebration and backwoods exorcism, this album takes traditional string band instrumentation and runs it through a haunted carnival of sin and salvation.

Highlights:

• The title track “Here’s to the Devil” is a barnstorming anthem that invites Lucifer to the hoedown and makes damn sure he brings moonshine.

• “Witches’ Wrath” delivers a fiery feminist hex through clawhammer banjo and firebrand vocals.

• “Laugh While You Can” dances on the line between nihilism and revelry — it’s folk punk as a last laugh before the gallows.

Musical Style:

Imagine if Tom Waits fronted a ragtag jug band with a penchant for punk rock and necromancy. Fiddle, banjo, upright bass, and gravel-throated vocals howl through tracks that are theatrical, darkly humorous, and defiantly alive. The band seamlessly swings between drunken singalongs, eerie gospel dirges, and speed-picking breakdowns with macabre flair.

For Fans Of:

Amigo the Devil, Days N’ Daze, The Dead South, Devil Makes Three, Those Poor Bastards

Verdict:

Here’s to the Devil is a devilish delight — irreverent, raw, and irresistibly catchy. Bridge City Sinners don’t just blur the line between folk and punk, they take a chainsaw to it. Raise your glass, light a candle, and toast the darkness.