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I love it when music evokes a mood, and with Marissa Nadler’s debut the mood is very chilling and soothing. Nadler’s voice plus her simple, bare-to-the-bone music makes this a confident record. In some strange way it actually manages to project her out of the record and into the living room. Maybe I am being too personal, but this is a personal record. Saying that, unlike other female singer-songwriters she isn’t claustrophobic with her emotions. Nadler is singing to you and you are her audience. It is a bit melancholic but it suits the mood so well. Plus the album flows so freely you won't even know that time has passed. Although I did say the music is sparse there are little touches which make it endearing. An accordian in ‘fifty- five falls’ gives the track an odd sea shanty air. The double-tracking (or back up) voice in ‘Box of Cedar’ strengthens the song immensely. And so on. When I listen to this I think of Hope Sandoval or Vashti Bunyan. But Nadler has her own distinctive style and personally I can’t wait to hear more offerings from this bright talent.
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