September’s CD of the Month was New Radiations by Marissa Nadler and today We’ve got her talking about this album which is one of her most personal releases.
Marissa Nadler: The whole record is really a heartbreak record. It kind of examines both sides through distance and time. And so New Radiations is really moving on in my head completely into a new world.
Marissa Nadler is not your typical singer-songwriter. Yes, 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 fingerstyle, 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 and seems to sing them from the pillow right next to you. We hear her talk about it on Echoes.
Read our review of New Radiations
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIRST HALF HOUR | |||
| 0:01:01 | Marissa Nadler | It Hits Harder | New Radiations |
| 0:06:00 | Geoglyph | Resonant Structure | Otherworldly |
| 0:12:48 | Bluetech | Restless | Spacehop Chronicles 2 |
| 0:16:08 | Cowboy Sadness | Billings, MT | Selected Jambient Works Vol. 1 |
| 0:21:10 | Deborah Martin & Jill Haley | Secrets of the Talking Trees | Rendering Time |
| 0:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| SECOND HALF HOUR | |||
| 0:30:00 | Interview: Marissa Nadler | ||
| 0:48:05 | Marissa Nadler | New Radiations | New Radiations |
| 0:52:30 | Marissa Nadler | Sad Satellite | New Radiations |
| 0:59:00 | Adrian Sherwood | The Collapse of Everything (excerpt) | The Collapse of Everything |
| THIRD HALF HOUR | |||
| 1:01:00 | Erik Wollo | Sinuous Path | Aeris Suite |
| 1:06:00 | Pretty Lightning | Night Roamer | Night Wobble |
| 1:09:35 | Big Thief | No Fear | No Fear |
| 1:16:18 | Purity Ring | The Long Night | Purity Ring |
| 1:20:13 | EVan Ziporyn & Contaqt | Evening Star | Art Decade |
| 1:29:30 | Shambhu | Resilience (excerpt) | Lotus Dream |
| 1:30:00 | Bluetech | Amorphous Crystals of Cassiopeia | Spacehop Chronicles 2 |
| 1:35:45 | Jesse MacCaormack | All I Want to Be | All I Want to Be (single) |
| 1:40:17 | Michael Garrison | The Search | In the Regions of Sunreturn and Beyond |
| 1:47:25 | Chuck Van Zyl | Force Field | Gemstones VI (v/a) |