Two Dark Birds | Colony

“Luminous and ambitious collection of poet-grade and quietly experimental folk music.” – HV1

“Strange and beautiful. It’s a record heard best with a beer in hand beneath a star-punched sky.“ � – Nylon

“Poised, structured, self-aware, ambitious.” � – DVEIGHT

Two Dark Birds is a band from the Catskill Mountains led by songwriter Steve Koester and drummer Jason Mills. They are joined by Josh Roy Brown (lap steel), Tyler Wood (keys), and Derek Nievergelt (bass). Since 2008, they have

released four critically acclaimed albums, as well as the 2022 EP Porous.

Prior to Two Dark Birds, Steve Koester fronted the bands Punchdrunk, Koester, and Maplewood, who altogether have released twelve albums. The music has been called “knockout gorgeous” and “timeless… great rock music” and has received glowing reviews everywhere from Fader and Nylon to The Village Voice and The New York Times, showing up on year-end Best Of lists in Magnet, Popmatters, Rhapsody, Disclaimer and more. Koester has also written, recorded and produced a wide variety of songs for TV and film.

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“…one of this year’s most subdued and moving releases.“ – The Big Takeover

“…there certainly is a magic to it, a kind of backwoods witchery that the only the best of the style can really capture. ” – Culture Collide

“…brimming with pastoral energy and light. There’s a quiet dignity to the songs, no grand or elaborate veneering.” – Chronogram

“… takes on the populist challenge of the form: how to be at once folk-accessible and lit- deep, how to wed image to experience and emotion without ever getting too fine or too poetic for the idiom. Koester hits the mark again and again…” – Woodstock Times