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"Dressed like a gang of Victorian rag dolls and dissolute French sailors, El Radio Fantastique weaves wistful melodies with their miniature symphony"

- New Orleans Gambit Weekly

"Strangely enough, El Radio Fantastique has roots in both New Orleans and San Francisco. Both port cities exhibit a dark romantic beauty and offer bountiful opportunities for euphoria, misery, or even ecstasy. Oh how they must appeal to the members of El Radio Fantastique, whose music echoes such beauty and who succeed in sticking it onto their record. Draculian at times, and at others like Modern English, they present tracks with both violence and gentleness, as in the hopeless romance on "Burn a Cross." The notes of a piano trickle downwards and in between howls and cats' meows on "Two Little Sirens" in accompaniment to the sultry warmth of June Dimorente's voice.

A splendid and enveloping array of instruments and moods carry us this way and that and forward and backward in time. A jazzy somberness pervades yet a good listen proves surprisingly uplifting. Like a wonder tonic, notice "Mostly Ghostly" for its magical guitar wizardry, which gives us the maximum somber beauty."

- Dan Vermont, The OwlMag.com

"The house band in Purgatory." - Live New Orleans

They arrive on stage, and the magic begins. Their young handsome faces framed by hats, braids and furs of a bygone era, their slim bodies dressed in faux-glamour outfits mocking the silent screen heyday.

But the best is yet to come. When El Radio Fantastique, a band like no other, starts playing its music, people with drinks in hand, who were partying noisily a minute ago, drop everything, and start slowly moving in their direction, as if in a somnambulistic trance.

Such is the power of their music—an urban legend of a haunted radio come alive—its pull is too strong, too enchanting to resist....(click for more)

- Emma Krasov : 8/1/07, Castro Valley TImes