Posts Tagged ‘Marissa Nadler’

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It’s been almost two years since Jason Molina of Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co. passed away due to organ failure, but since then we’ve heard a number of tribute covers by his peers and admirers. Marissa Nadler recorded a cover of Molina’s song “It’s Easier Now” for a new tribute album titled Through The Static And Distance: The Songs Of Jason Molina. All of the album proceeds will go to Molina’s family. This isn’t the first time we’ve heard a cover of this track; Mark Kozelek recorded his own version shortly after Molina’s passing, which was released on a benefit record alongside Molina’s friends and collaborators

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fuzzy guitars and strings from the new album “JULY” on Bella Union
As a musician, I’m not a born performer, not a born exhibitionist – I just really love to write music”, says Marissa Nadler. Initially coming from a background in teaching fine arts, the Boston-based songstress made the transition into the realities of a touring artist in 2004, the year her full-length debut Ballads Of Living And Dying hit the shelves. Ever since then, Nadler has only slightly altered her sonic formula, which is firmly rooted in the Americana goth and folk tradition, with a strong emphasis on compelling storytelling and her unmistakable, ethereal voice against stripped-down guitar backdrops. Narco-folk and dream-pop are only two of many rather poor attempts to put a name to her hazy atmospheres and eerie lyricism. Besides releasing albums on labels like Eclipse, Kemado, Box Of Cedar, and her most recent musical homes, Sacred Bones and Bella Union, Nadler has put out demos and off-shoots on her own kickstarter-backed imprint.

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Marissa Nadler latest full length album, July, is out on Sacred Bones in North America and on Bella Union everywhere else. But here is a new EP with a couple of incredible covers and a couple of songs from July, The EP titled “Before July

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Near the beginning of the year, the spectral folk singer Marissa Nadler released a soft glow of an album called “July”. Today, she’s hitting us with “Before July”, a digital-only EP that includes four demos — two July songs and two unreleased songs. And it’s also got Nadler’s atmospheric, vaguely gothy cover of “Pitseleh,” a heartbreaker of a song from the late legend Elliott Smith’s 1998 album XO. In Nadler’s hands, the lyrics and melody are the same as they were with the original, but the arrangement is very, very different.

 

 

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sounding as haunting as ever, ghostly textures and a lovely fingerpicked acoustic, described as dream folk, melodic and beautiful.