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"Americana by way of pagan cabaret"
Bay Area Reporter
"Americana by way of pagan cabaret"
Bay Area Reporter
"The band creates sounds both mystical and ethereal and have drawn comparisons to Gogol Bordello, David Lynch, Dresden Dolls and Dead Can Dance" Stitched Sound
"The band creates sounds both mystical and ethereal and have drawn comparisons to Gogol Bordello, David Lynch, Dresden Dolls and Dead Can Dance" Stitched Sound
"You can almost smell the gas lamps in the street & the absinthe being poured." Americana Highways
"You can almost smell the gas lamps in the street & the absinthe being poured." Americana Highways
Ryder Cooley is a fearless folklorist....she's also head mistress of the gypsy-folky Dust Bowl Faeries—stroking a warbling saw, squeezing an accordion, strumming a uke, and bleeding out curious poetry in goth attire with girlish vox, a taxidermied ram's head worn on her back... Haviland S Nichols, CHRONOGRAM
“a carnival of beguiling delights, ready to whirl you around the dance floor of your mind” Audio Femme, Gillian G. Gaar
“a carnival of beguiling delights, ready to whirl you around the dance floor of your mind” Audio Femme, Gillian G. Gaar
“At once winsome and terrifying, charming and bold, Dust Bowl Faeries is fast becoming an East Coast phenomenon”
Michael Eck (award-winning cultural critic & freelance writer)"Blending elements of goth, rock, cabaret, vaudeville, and folk, (the Plague Garden) presents a myriad of themes not only relating to the current global situation, but also addressing social and mythical themes" ReGen Magazine
“Carnival, circus, cabaret, silent-movie-era, fin de siecle, Lynchian...baroque with a touch of Jethro Tull.”
Ric Kallaher
“When she beckons a lover down to the river or onto a dream-ship for a dark ride, she means you too, and you go, because why not? Okay, she’s wearing a stuffed ram’s head, with whom she has a close relationship, but she’s also wearing a beautiful black dress with a skirt like the petals of a dark flower. And yes, she plays accordion and ukulele, but unlike any accordion or ukulele you’ve heard before. They’re still deeply quirky and hard to categorize, although they call themselves “ethereal gothic-folk,” whatever that is, but, they make mesmerizing music together, now newly accessible, even entertaining, thanks, at least in part to the self-titled debut album” Enid Futterman, IMBY
“A Dust Bowl Faeries concert is something like a deep, dark mystical-musical tragi-comedy, often centering around extinct and/or endangered members of the animal kingdom”
Greg Haymes, Nippertown
“Cooley, a captivating performer, seems at times to be almost floating outward toward the audience, temporarily evacuating her corporeal space so the souls of extinct beasts have room in the vessel of her body to fill as she sings them forth”
Alexa Chase, Seat of Perception
"Charlie Chaplin meets Clockwork Orange with a peppering of Alice in Wonderland and a shot of absinthe to take the edge off" Ahmad Garland
“Carnival, circus, cabaret, silent-movie-era, fin de siecle, Lynchian...baroque with a touch of Jethro Tull.”
Ric Kallaher
"It’s not everyday that you stumble across a band who combines carnival aesthetics, occult symbolism, 19th century romanticism, gothic imagery and psychedelic folk all into one, big artistic presence…"
Joe Vitagliano
“a freewheeling carnival set up on the outskirts of a small town. Dark, mysterious interludes are balanced by bright tangos and horahs, driven by uplifting backbeats.” J. Poet
GROUNDSOUNDS
INSTINCT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
OUTBURN ARTICLE
BROADWAY WORLD
“I wanted to pour myself an Absinthe, wear a monocle
and gather with my steampunk friends
to enjoy this unique sliver of artistic vision” Matt Jensen
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