New Radiations by Marissa Nadler: The Echoes September CD of the Month
It’s the Diva of the Downer when we hear the latest album by Marissa Nadler, New Radiations. Marissa Nadler is not your typical singer-songwriter. Yeah, she sings and plays guitar and that has been the central voice of her music since she began recording in 2004. But she’s darker. Her voice is bathed in reverb, as is her guitar which she plays finger-style, sending symmetries of delay into even more reverb. There’s a reason I’ve dubbed her The Diva of the Downer. That’s not an insult. She exults in reveries from the darker corners of the mind. I mean, her debut album was titled Ballads of Living and Dying. New Radiations is more stripped down than her previous releases and it reveals the deeply felt emotions of her songs even more. New Radiations is the September CD of the Month. John Diliberto radiates you with its beauty on the next Echoes from PRX.
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