I was so blown away when I first heard Marissa Nadler‘s July album in 2015. It was everything I loved about folk/dark folk music. It was melancholy, atmospheric, and dream-like. The sparse instrumentation, the fragile, haunting voice wrapped in a blanket of reverb that creates a warm space. When the world is heavy and I want to forget it’s out there, I put on Marissa Nadler (any album) and suddenly nothing else matters. The fact that the world is going to get a new Marissa Nadler record in 2025 is a gift that everyone should be welcoming it with open arms.
New Radiations (Sacred Bones/Bella Luna Records) was self-produced by Nadler and the follow-up to the 2022 EP The Wrath Of The Clouds. Nadler has also released the title track as the first single and it can be heard on all streaming platforms. Nadler had this to say about the album New Radiations:
“My narrator (whether these are first person songs or not really depends on how you want to listen to them) is feeling stuck, depressed, and frozen in a world after a tough few years for the world,” Nadler explains. “Regardless, the ‘psychic vibrations and new radiations’ take their toll. The cosmic darkness we live in creeps into the psyche — but the character reaches clarity. As the song unfolds, the screen shatters, the ice breaks, and a new world begins.”
New Radiations is out 8/15 on Sacred Bones/Bella Union. Click HERE to pre-order the album but for now, Check out the new music video for “New Radiations.”
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