Марисса Надлер: Американская певица и автор песен

American singer songwriter

Marissa Nadler (born April 5, 1981) is an American singer songwriter. Active since 2000, she is currently signed to Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union, and released her ninth full length studio album, The Path of the Clouds, in October 2021. Her music has been characterized as blending "traditional folk, Gothic Americana, and dreamy pop into an original musical framework". Her music "is rooted in old school country and folk but brings in elements of experimental and black metal". Sometimes the term "dream folk" has been invoked to describe her work. Singing in a mezzo soprano, Nadler has received acclaim for her vocals. Her voice was described by Pitchfork as one "you would follow straight into Hades", and also "textured and angelic, with just a hint of pain captured within her iridescent falsetto". She was raised Jewish. As a teenager, she taught herself to play guitar in a style similar to fingerpicking, playing a steady bass pattern with the thumb and filling out syncopated rhythms with the index finger. Also while in her teens, she began to write songs as a hobby. Nadler also contributed to the Pearl Before Swine tribute album For the Dead in Space Volumes II & III in 2003.

On June 14, 2011, an eponymous record was released worldwide on Nadler's own label, Box of Cedar Records.

The album Strangers, recorded with producer Dunn in 2015, was released on May 20, 2016, on Sacred Bones and Bella Union. A limited edition version with original artwork included a pre release cassette of Bury Your Name. The album release was accompanied by an extensive tour of North America and Europe. In late 2016, Nadler joined Ghost for the US tour. Strangers holds a score of 76 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". The album was listed on several lists of 2016's best albums to date, including Spin, Newsweek, Uncut and The Quietus. Spin also listed "Janie in Love" as one of the best songs of 2016 so far. During this period, Nadler directed and animated music videos for Strangers tracks "Janie in Love" and "All the Colors of the Dark", as well as "Blood and Tears", a Danzig cover she had self released as a digital only single for Halloween 2015. In late September 2016, a video for the Strangers song "Dissolve", featuring both animation and live performance, was released on Pitchfork. tv.

On February 21, 2019, Nadler released a collaborative track with John Cale called "Poison". On the same day she shared another song called "If We Make It Through The Summer". Her collaborative album with Stephen Brodsky, Droneflower was released on April 26, 2019. The album received positive reviews, earning a 8/10 score from Soundblab, 8/10 from PopMatters, 7/10 from Atwood Magazine, 7/10 from Earbuddy, 3.5/5 from The Thin Air and a 4.5/5 from Cryptic Rock. The music website Everythingisnoise remarked, "this mind meld between Nadler and Brodsky is unexpectedly brilliant." and SLUG Magazine called the collaboration a "cosmic collision" in a favorable review. Droneflower was performed at three East Coast shows in June 2019, together with the release of a claymation video of "For the Sun." On December 6, 2019, Nadler and Brodsky released two cover songs on Bandcamp that were not included on the Droneflower album: "In the air tonight" by Phil Collins and "More than words" by Extreme. Nadler's figurative and sonic work again converged at the Grauzone Festival in The Hague in February 2020 with a stage performance and simultaneous exhibition of self portrait paintings. In addition, 2020 saw the publication two limited edition books of photography, a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Old Friends/Bookends" and two albums of previously unreleased songs and demo versions, Unearthed and Covers 3. 3 July 2020 saw the release of the EP moons which has a meditative, ambient atmosphere.

In February 2021, she released the single "Sleepwalk & Lonely People", and in May 2021 the compilation album Instead of Dreaming. Nadler released her ninth solo album, The Path of the Clouds on October 29, 2021. Like others, the album found its origins in the Covid 19 pandemic: "Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism, and murder." A review from the magazine UNCUT notes that, "[e]scape is a central theme of the album, and several songs recall historical cases of mysterious disappearances, but infused with personal experience, blurring the line between fact and fiction." This self produced album contains the most sonically elaborate work of her discography. Various guests make an appearance on The Path of the Clouds including harpist Mary Lattimore and former Cocteau Twins bassist Simon Raymonde. Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a guitar solo to "Turned into Air" and Amber Webber of Black Mountain provides backing vocals on "Elegy". Milky Burgess played various instruments throughout the album. The album received four stars from  8/10 from UNCUT, MOJO, and Record Collector. Other reviewers were even more positive, with All Music Guide (4 ½ stars) praising the "epic, aching songs, which refuse to keep tragedy at arm's length" and Sputnikmusic (superb: 4.5) noting that it "sounds so lush, sweeping, and powerful that all the subtle, intricate melodies are merely the cherry on top." In its five star "essential" review, Contact Music called the album "exquisitely crafted and utterly beguiling" and recommended that, "The Path of the Clouds should be listened to, uninterrupted, in its entirety."

Nadler currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. She has been open about past struggles with anxiety, depression, and stage fright.

+ List of music videos, showing year released and directors Title Year Director(s) Ref. (Reference) "Diamond Heart" 2007 Alina Smirnova "Your Heart is a Twisted Vine" (Demo version) Marissa Nadler "Little Hells" 2010 Si Clark "Rosary" 2011 Patrick Fraser "Mexican Summer" Joana Linda "Alabaster Queen" Joana Linda "Bird On Your Grave" Joana Linda "The Wrecking Ball Company" 2012 Ryan Hamilton Walsh "Wedding" 2013 Derrick Belcham "Dead City Emily" 2014 Derrick Belcham and Emily Terndrup "Was It a Dream" Ryan Hamilton Walsh "Drive" Naomi Yang "Firecrackers" Ryan Hamilton Walsh "Blood and Tears" 2015 Marissa Nadler "All the Colors of the Dark" 2016 Marissa Nadler "Janie in Love" Marissa Nadler "For My Crimes" (Acoustic) 2018 Tyler Smith "Blue Vapor" Thomas McMahan "Said Goodbye To That Car" Marissa Nadler "For the Sun" (with Stephen Brodsky) 2019 Deborah Sheedy "Poison" 2020 Eden Tijerina "Marie" (Lost Horizons feat. Marissa Nadler) 2021 ? "Sleep Walk" Christen Dute and Tyler Derryberry "Bessie, Did You Make It?" Mitch Wells "If I Could Breathe Underwater" Jenni Hensler "Couldn't Have Done the Killing" Tyler Hollis Derryberry and Christen Dute "Lemon Queen" Eden Tijerina