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The last we heard from Marissa Nadler, she was soaring through The Path of the Clouds and its companion EP, The Wrath of the Clouds. Now, on her tenth official full-length record, New Radiations, she returns with a raw, intimate, and breathtaking collection of eleven otherworldly songs.
From the first note, Nadler’s lush voice and intricate fingerpicking are front and center. She layers Everly Brothers–style harmonies over dreamlike, lonesome soundscapes—fuzzed-out distortion, Hammond organ, and ominous synthesizers—that elevate her warm vulnerability with texture and atmosphere. Each track unfolds like a vignette of a life lived, delivering emotional weight that “hits harder” with the curtain pulled back.
Lyrically, she shape-shifts through time and space—inhabiting characters in an airborne Cessna, a spaceship, a getaway car, and alternate dimensions. Her storytelling is cinematic in scope and deeply personal in impact. On the opener, she’s an aviator set on acceptance: “I will fly around the world just to forget you / Try not to hit the mountains as I pass through / Blinded by sandstorms, no sight of the land below / My little Cessna’s due west, and I had to go.”
On the title track, she intones, “Psychic vibrations and new radiations have taken their toll on me,” a sentiment as timely as it is haunting, as she tries to “break the glass, tie up the ending of the scene.” In the woozy do-op of “Bad Dreams Summertime,” she braces for impact as the world crashes down, painting nocturnal horrors in vivid detail.
Throughout New Radiations, the contrast between sweet, catchy melodies and dark, visceral lyrics runs deep. In “Light Years,” she recalls: “Back in the day, you were all the rage, when you could still hypnotize her… you used to see light years inside her, you used to be right there beside her. In “You Called Her Camellia,” the narrator laments, “This wasn’t the deal! (Her fading away),” while “Smoke Screen Selene” warns, “Don’t you let her destroy you like I did.” On the cosmic murder ballad “Hatchet Man,” a chilling hotel scene unfolds: “The angel made him do it and he made me watch—he thought no one would notice her gone,” as the narrator flees into the night.
“To Be the Moon King,” inspired by the father of modern rocketry, follows a man writing codes backward in mirrors and tinkering with backyard rockets to reach “Saturn’s rings, burning.” Whether singing from the first-person narrative or channeling these other people, the album taps into the universality of love and loss with gravitas and empathy. It culminates in the luminous closing track “Sad Satellite,” where she admits, “I mistook you for the sky,” leaving us suspending between longing and release.
Produced by Nadler herself, the album was recorded in Nashville, both at Haptown Studios with the help of friend Roger Moutenot, and her home studio. Mixed by Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), New Radiations features subtle, immersive arrangements from longtime collaborator Milky Burgess—woozy slide guitar, hypnagogic synthesizers, and gritty riffs, that ebb and flow with oceanic intensity. In contrast to Nadler’s last two guest heavy records, New Radiations presents a more introspective and personal vision. Genre‑bending yet quintessentially her own, this album freezes the world’s noise in a moment of beauty and solemnity. New Radiations is not just another album—it’s a career highlight, a testament to Marissa Nadler’s singular vision and artistry.
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