Marissa Nadler (and seperation anxiety disorder?)

Marissa Nadler's music I have known about for a fair bit now. Her music and I do so well together that I've not had the heart to tell any one friend about her until now for fear of losing her. I like keeping secrets like these, so I've been a bit tense about giving her to you, but I feel that this is something I should do, as it says a lot more about me than it does about the music when I start admitting my attachments to songs and artists and such... Marissa Nadler contains your interest through her voice and the calm use of strings. There's a alluring sadness in her song and she has this habit of melting me the same way Leonard Cohen does. Perhaps I'm very easily charmed by the rare simplicity in contempory music, or maybe Marissa is nothing more than a Siren. Her music is the sort you very well wouldn't mind spending a day in an empty off-white room listening to in perfect solitude. This is the strongest music I've heard in a very long time.

She may be a contemporary folkie, but she seems somewhat removed from the current trends...There's something a lot more classic and old-fashioned about her approach, which makes hers seem quite a bit more timeless than many of the other records that have been coming out of this genre. - Other Music, New York City

'Turquoise'
'Days of Rum'
'Mayflower May'
mp3s and photograph courtesy of marissanadler.com