US / THEM: Charming Disaster stream full album ahead of release, East Coast tour continues

"Gothic folk murder balladry, not unlike PJ Harvey at her most ornate. But there's an accessibility and pop sensibility that also nods to the likes of Andrew Bird or Regina Spektor. It's darkness cut with a melodic immediacy, and it's a thing of fanciful beauty." -- Treble

Brooklyn, NY duo Charming Disaster are streaming in full their forthcoming sophomore album Cautionary Tales today at Impose Magazine. Hear and share the dark literary leaning full length HERE. (Direct Soundcloud.)

GhettoBlaster Magazine premiered the third single, "Little Black Bird" this week, available to hear and share HERE. Lead single "Sympathetic Magic" recently launched via TrebleZine HERE. Northern Transmissions previously shared "Snake Bit" HERE.

The band is currently on an East Coast tour in support of the album release. Please see complete dates below. The duo's NYC hometown album release party is April 29th at Hell Phone Speakeasy. Tickets & info HERE.

Charming Disaster is a songwriting and performance duo formed by musicians Ellia Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Funkrust Brass Band) and Jeff Morris (of Kotorino) in 2012. Inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the noir storytelling of Raymond Chandler, the stylish aesthetic of French new wave film, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories - exploring themes like love, death, crime, ancient mythology, and the paranormal.

Their song "Ghost Story" was featured on the podcast Welcome to Night Vale, and they were awarded "best closing credits music" by the 2016 Garden State Film Festival for their song "Right Words to Say" (featured in the short film Mary and Louise). They released their debut album, Love, Crime & Other Trouble, in 2015, and their second album, Cautionary Tales, will be released in spring 2017.

Many of the songs on Cautionary Tales were created in February 2015, when the duo spent two weeks holed up in an isolated cabin in the snowy woods of northern Michigan. Cautionary Tales expands on Charming Disaster's spooky, offbeat universe of paranormal romance, circus and carnival characters, con artists, and Egyptian mythology with new songs of espionage, occult practices, supernatural creatures, and the end of the world as we know it. The album's musical influences include traditional murder ballads, the duo collaborations of PJ Harvey and John Parish, and the folkier side of Led Zeppelin. Charming Disaster's literary bent is also in evidence, with references to cult fantasy novels Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and The Golden Compass as well as ancient lore from Greek and Norse mythology.

Cautionary Tales will be available on CD and download on April 21st, 2017. Preorders are available via Bandcamp.

CHARMING DISASTER LIVE:

04/20 Wilmington, NC @ (secret house concert)

04/21 Hillsborough, NC @ Mystery Brewing Company

04/22 York, PA @ (secret house concert)

04/29 New York, NY @ Hell Phone Speakeasy (official album release show)

07/20 New York, NY @ Joe's Pub