Echoes Podcast: Marissa Nadler Attains Escape Velocity

September’s CD of the Month was New Radiations by Marissa Nadler and in the Echoes Podcast 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