Next show: Los Angeles, Sat 31 Oct
Anchored by her unmistakable mezzo-soprano and intricate fingerstyle guitar, Marissa Nadler’s music conjures vivid emotional worlds—intimate, otherworldly, and timeless. A prolific songwriter, she has built a discography defined by spectral beauty and haunting lyricism. Her songs, dreamlike and lush, are rich with painterly imagery and emotional nuance. As the New Yorker writes, “To luxuriate in the spectral croon of Marissa Nadler is to step into a noirish world of mystery and glamour,” while AllMusic praises her “epic, aching songs, which refuse to keep tragedy at arm's length.” Shortly after earning degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, Marissa released her breakthrough debut,"Ballads of Living and Dying" (2004), a collection that announced her as a major voice in the underground. A skilled visual artist as well, Nadler’s background in painting and drawing has deeply informed the cinematic scope of her songwriting. Following her early releases, she partnered with Sacred Bones and Bella Union for July (2014), marking a new chapter, both in creative clarity and critical acclaim. As Brooklyn Vegan notes, “Just about everything she puts out is truly mesmerizing.” Her tenth full-length album, New Radiations, was released August 15th, 2025. Expansive, melodic, and emotionally vivid, it captures Nadler at her most personal and visionary.
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Marissa Nadler plays dream folk and gothic folk, combining spectral vocals and intricate fingerstyle guitar with cinematic, atmospheric arrangements.
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Her albums, released on labels like Sacred Bones and Bella Union, are known for their haunting lyricism, painterly imagery, and rich sonic textures.
