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Track Listing
1. Heartpaper Lover
2. Rosary
3. Mary Come Alive
4. Little Hells
5. Ghosts And Lovers
6. Brittle Crushed And Torn
7. Whole Is Wide, The
8. River Of Dirt
9. Loner
10. Mistress
| Details | | Producer: | Chris Coady | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The fourth album by Boston-based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler is a bit of a retrenchment following 2007's SONGS III: BIRD ON THE WATER. That album, featuring production by Greg Weeks and the musical accompaniment of his Espers bandmates, pushed Nadler closer to the "freak folk" contingent than is her natural metier; the sparser, quieter LITTLE HELLS is not a return to the acoustic starkness of her first two albums so much as a more natural continuation and expansion of that sound. A uniformly dark-hued album that escapes bleakness through the tender beauty of Nadler's voice, LITTLE HELLS is the singer's most fully realized work so far.
Industry Reviews
With her luxuriant, renaissance faire soprano, Nadler sketches out the ways that a bright past can fade to a torturous present haunted by 'ghosts and lovers.'
[E]legiac and elegant....Surrounded by little else but her own melancholy, Nadler sums up her career's existential despair....LITTLE HELLS moves Nadler well beyond easy categories, thanks to a newfound clarity in her words...
4 stars out of 5 -- [S]o convincingly does the Boston-based siren inhabit this cut-off, gothic world that it's hard not to be sucked inside the darkly compelling likes of 'River Of Dirt.'
4 stars out of 5 -- [T]his is an enchanting record, loosely describable as a mix of nu folk and '60s English folk.
The bewitching dream-folk chanteuse returns with her fourth solo album....A spectral atmosphere permeates the album and you listen, forget yourself, where you are, and are content to be swept along...
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