Marissa Nadler

Artist Description

"Ms. Nadler suggested Joan Baez gone Gothic and 21st century. She brings a limpid soprano voice to ballad melodies, and she often uses the serene fingerpicking that the 1960s folkies learned from Elizabeth Cotten’s version of “Freight Train.” But both her voice and her guitar were surrounded in otherworldly reverb, a long way from Appalachia."
-Jon Pareles, NY Times

"Sub-zero temperatures, snow quietly cascading onto barren branches, and Marissa Nadler playing on the stereo; some things were just made for each other. Hopefully snow will still be falling on some parts of the world come March 3, as that's when Ms. Nadler's due to drop her fourth full-length, Little Hells."
-Pitchfork

On her fourth solo album, Marissa Nadler finds multiple ways to envelop the listener in splendid gauzy moods without becoming monochromatic. A master of creating rich dreamscape atmospheres, Nadler’s voice shines and glides even more with a full band accompanying her. Few contemporary artists can match the stunning ride of Marissa's reverb vocals that are a journey into themselves on every rose tinged track. Little Hells displays a brighter leap in musical maturity and attention to detail, as the fantasmagoric sounds delve into melancholy nuggets, sometimes erotic, sometimes gutting, but filled with a gorgeous sense of serene hope more so than previous album, Songs III: Bird on the Water.