Queen City Sounds Podcast S5E10: Charming Disaster

Charming Disaster, photo by Shervin Lainez

Charming Disaster is a Brooklyn-based duo who have developed a style that has been described as goth-folk. But Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris seem to have a knack for crafting deeply imaginative pop songs with an experimental and theatrical flair. Their latest record The Double released on May 16, 2025 on vinyl, CD and of course digital platforms. As with previous efforts the band explores concepts in its songs this time through the vehicle of songs dealing with an alternate reality where magic is a feature of life, time travel, the flora taking over civilization and a re-imagining of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The album deftly incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction in telling engaging stories and of left field adventure and of struggling with depression and transforming tragedy into something more productive. Utilizing ukulele, guitar, foot percussion and beautiful vocal harmonies Charming Disaster’s dark cabaret style is the kind that transcends genre and musical era with an immediacy that instantly draws you into its unique creative vision.

Listen to our interview with Charming Disaster on Bandcamp and follow the group at the links below.

charmingdisaster.com

Charming Disaster on Facebook

Charming Disaster on Instagram

Charming Disaster on YouTube

Charming Disaster on Bandcamp (to order vinyl and get a download)

Queen City Sounds Podcast S3E07: Charming Disaster

Charming Disaster, photo by Krys Fox

Charming Disaster is a “goth-folk duo” comprised of Ellia Bisker and Jeff Morris based out of Brooklyn, NY that has since 2012 written high concept songs that explore themes of human exploration of the natural world and the ways our attempts at explaining the world and our lives weave their way into culture in fascinating ways that are often hidden from contemporary society. In its songwriting Charming Disaster uncover these secret and often merely neglected connections and turn those paths of curiosity into fascinating narratives for its body of work. The project’s latest album is Super Natural History, a musical cabinet of curiosities in which each song is a curio and oddity of our collective mythological heritage in the form of stories of witchcraft, monsters and the underworld and where our ideas of magic and science intersect in alchemical fashion. The music is rooted in a sense of wonder and strong songcraft that renders the sometimes unusual subject matter accessible and immediately relatable.

Listen to our interview with Charming Disaster on Bandcamp, listen to Super Natural History below where you can also purchase the album digitally, on CD or vinyl on the group’s own Bandcamp site and follow the adventures and exploits of Charming Disaster at charmingdisaster.com.