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f a e r i e p r e s s
"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
"You can almost smell the gas lamps in the street & the absinthe being poured." - Americana Highways
SOUND AND SHADOWS
“Magic & Mayhem sweetly tickles the darkness inside you”
RADIORADIOX
CHORUS.FM
AMERICANA HIGHWAYS
VANYALAND
NIPPERTOWN
ROCK&ROLL GLOBE
BUZZSPROUT
FAN TO BAND
SOUND DIGEST
WILDFIRE MUSIC
15 QUESTIONS
100PERCENTROCK
PET LIFE RADIO
MICHAELS MUSICLOG
THE BUZZ
SINISTERGIRLZ
FIFTY3
NIPPERTOWN
NYS MUSIC
TINNITIST
NYRDCAST
NPR/WNYC SOUNDCHECK
VENTS MAGAZINE
MXDWN ARTICLE
MUSIC BOUTIQUE
“The Plague Garden is a carnival of beguiling delights, ready to whirl you around the dancefloor of your mind” Gillian G. Gaar
ROCK&ROLL GLOBE
“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
AMERICAN SONGWRITER
"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
RADIORADIOX
STEAMPUNK JOURNAL
JEFFREY READS
GROUNDSOUNDS
SPOTIFY TOP 10: THE ALT ROOT
TINNITIST
INSTINCT MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
POST MAGAZINE
SOUNDER.FM
OUTBURN ARTICLE
DIVIDE&CONQUER
“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
CHRONOGRAM
"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
BROADWAY WORLD
MINORITY TIMES ARTICLE
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additional quotes
"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
“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)
“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
“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
“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
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publicity
Rey Roldan/Raybee
