{"id":12033,"date":"2025-04-09T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12033"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:14:46","slug":"brooklyn-based-goth-folk-duo-charming-disaster-releasing-their-7th-full-length-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=12033","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn based Goth-Folk duo Charming Disaster releasing their 7th full length album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo by Florence Montmare www.florencemontmare.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Double<\/u><\/em><\/strong> <\/strong>invites listeners to step across the border of an alternate reality, where spells are cast, time travel is possible, plants are taking over civilization, and vampires lurk in the shadows. Adventures in the darkness lie beyond the threshold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album\u2019s ten songs include \u201cBlack Locust,\u201d a lullaby about mortality; \u201cNew Moon,\u201d a magical nature ritual; \u201cTrick of the Light,\u201d a reimagining of Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula<\/em>; \u201cTime Machine,\u201d in which Charming Disaster change the past and start over again; \u201cScavengers,\u201d a walk in the woods with vultures and bones; \u201cBeautiful Night,\u201d a defiant response to struggles with depression; \u201cVitriol,\u201d a tribute to artist Thomas Little, who turns guns into ink; \u201cHaunted Lighthouse,\u201d a swashbuckling sea voyage; \u201cGang of Two,\u201d a true crime adventure; and \u201cGreen Things,\u201d a love letter to what grows between the cracks (and its inevitable takeover).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album features an array of talented collaborators. Co-producer Don Godwin, who has worked on Charming Disaster\u2019s entire discography, contributed bass, drums, and horns as well as engineering and mixing. \u201cHaunted Lighthouse\u201d features Broadway percussionist Mike Dobson along with circus composer Peter Bufano, who played piano and accordion and engineered the track at Cirkestra World Headquarters in Boston, MA (with additional tracking at Tonal Park). \u201cScavengers\u201d features cello recorded by Kate Wakefield of the duo Lung, who also created the string arrangement for \u201cBeautiful Night.\u201d Stefan Zeniuk of Gato Logo contributed saxophone to \u201cGreen Things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conjunction with The Double<\/u><\/em><\/strong>, Charming Disaster is releasing the second edition of their \u201coracle deck\u201d (similar to a Tarot deck). The Charming Disaster Oracle Deck contains 72 cards (including 12 new cards for the second edition), each representing one of the songs from Charming Disaster\u2019s discography. The cards feature illustrations commissioned from more than thirty different artists. The deck can be used as a divination tool, or as a visual accompaniment to Charming Disaster\u2019s music. The duo themselves use these cards in their live performances to determine the set through the element of chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charming Disaster was formed by Bisker and Morris in 2012, inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the murder ballads of the American Folk tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret. Together the duo write songs that tell stories about myth, magic, and mortality, using two voices to explore dark narratives and characters with a playfully macabre sensibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On their critically acclaimed albums Love, Crime & Other Trouble<\/u> <\/em>(2015), Cautionary Tales<\/u><\/em> (2017), and SPELLS + RITUALS<\/u><\/em> (2019), Charming Disaster explored death, crime, folklore, and the occult. On Our Lady of Radium<\/u> <\/em>(2022), they turned their attention to science and explored the life and discoveries of pioneering scientist Marie Curie. On Super Natural History <\/u><\/em>(2023), they united the natural world and the metaphysical realm in a musical cabinet of curiosities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The duo put out two releases in 2024: Time Ghost<\/em>, an album-length collection of songs released as singles between 2013 and 2024; and Dance Me to the End of Bela Lugosi\u2019s Lovesong<\/em>, an EP of covers paying tribute to a few of the band\u2019s influences: Leonard Cohen\u2019s \u201cDance Me to the End of Love,\u201d \u201cBela Lugosi\u2019s Dead\u201d by Bauhaus, and The Cure\u2019s \u201cLovesong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Charming Disaster\u2019s live shows, the duo combine vocal harmonies and clever lyrics with ukulele, guitar, and foot percussion, with a cabaret-influenced performance style that straddles the line between concert and theatre and has been described as \u201chaunted vaudeville\u201d (Splice Magazine<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charming Disaster\u2019s music has been featured on the spooky hit podcast Welcome to Night Vale<\/em>. They have opened for legendary cello-rock ensemble Rasputina, Goth icon Voltaire, and Amanda Palmer\u2019s punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls. Their concerts have captivated audiences across the United States and in Europe. They have appeared alongside storytellers, comedians, fire eaters, puppets, burlesque artists, poets, and circus performers. Recent appearances have included Joe’s Pub in NYC, Atlanta\u2019s massive pop culture convention Dragon Con, Brooklyn\u2019s historic Green-Wood Cemetery, the Rochester Fringe Festival, Philadelphia\u2019s Science History Institute, the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, VA, Cleveland’s Wizbang Circus Theatre, and the Coney Island Sideshow stage, as well as sundry bars, art galleries, theatres, bookstores, libraries, train cars, mausoleums, and museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Website:\u00a0www.charmingdisaster.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Facebook:\u00a0www.facebook.com\/charmingdisaster<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram:\u00a0http:\/\/instagram.com\/charmingdisasterband<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube:\u00a0http:\/\/youtube.com\/charmingdisasterband<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bandcamp:\u00a0http:\/\/charmingdisaster.bandcamp.com<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

photo by Florence Montmare www.florencemontmare.com The Double invites listeners to step across the border of an alternate reality, where spells are cast, time travel is possible, plants are taking over civilization, and vampires lurk in the shadows. Adventures in the darkness lie beyond the threshold.  The album\u2019s ten songs include \u201cBlack Locust,\u201d a lullaby about mortality;… Read More »Brooklyn based Goth-Folk duo Charming Disaster releasing their 7th full length album<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12035,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12033\/revisions\/12035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}