This American singer-songwriter released her sixth studio album in February 2014 titled simply “July” and not surprisingly was on most peoples list Its just wonderful .The latest full length album from Marissa, July, is out on Sacred Bones in North America and on the brilliant Bella Union everywhere else.
This record was produced by Randall Dunn (Wolves In The Throne Room, Earth, Sunn O)))) in Seattle, WA.
Marissa Nadler lays the listener – and herself – on the line with ‘July’, her sixth full-length album in nearly a decade. Recorded at Seattle’s Avast Studio, the album pairs Marissa Nadler for the first time with producer Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), Wolves In The Throne Room). Dunn matches Nadler’s darkness by creating a multi-coloured sonic palette that infuses new dimensions into her songs. Eyvand Kang’s strings, Steve Moore’s synths and Phil Wandscher’s guitar lines escalate the whole affair to a panoramic level of beautiful, eerie wonder. The results are astonishing and occasionally reminiscent of being in a David Lynch movie.
Its a sublime gothy-folky feel this singer songwriter manages to be a melange of fragile, brittle, sad, delicate, punchy, catchy, eerie.songs and sounds .Frequently quivering with an indefinable nostalgia, never merely wispy, perhaps weighted with the wistful, hints of melancholy hanging in the air like mist or fog. Imagine a sad silvery sound, occasionally lingering, acoustic autumnal sounds without overbearing mournful dirges.
Perhaps the musical equivalent of a discarded remnant of a lace bodice or unfettered veil fluttering over the ground, only to be captured with repeated attempts, to reveal a tatter of shroud. Totally original to herself, Marissa Nadler this album is a pure gem.
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