Marissa Nadler – The Path Of The Clouds [Limited Edition Silver Color Vinyl]

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The Path of the Clouds, Marissa Nadlers ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs in her already rich discography. Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism, and murder. Blurring the line between reality and fantasy and moving freely between past and present, these 11 deeply personal, self-produced songs find Nadler exploring new landscapes, both sonic and emotional.

Nadler tracked the skeletons of the songs at home and then sent them to some choice collaborators, including experimental harpist Mary Lattimore and Simon Raymonde, the Cocteau Twins bassist and her Lost Horizons collaborator. Multi-instrumentalist Milky Burgess, having recently worked on the soundtrack to the film Mandy, adds intricate melodic power throughout the album. Jesse Chandler, Nadlers piano teacher (as well as a member of Mercury Rev and Midlake), plays winding woodwinds and plaintive piano to luminous effect. Fellow singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a slinky guitar solo on Turned Into Air, while Black Mountains Amber Webber steps in as a vocal foil to Nadler, a ghostly apparition in the distance of Elegy. Seth Manchester, known for his work with Lingua Ignota, Battles, and Lightning Bolt, mixed the album at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Manchester added dimension to the songs atmospheric beauty with screeching feedback and distorted guitars. Stripped of the ethereal reverb that often swaddles her resonant vocals, Nadlers delivery now stings and pierces with newfound immediacy and confidence.

Bessie, Did You Make It (4:29) The Path of the Clouds (4:51) Couldnt Have Done the Killing (4:49) If I Could Breathe Underwater (4:30) Elegy (4:45) Well Sometimes You Just Cant Stay (3:52) From Vapor to Stardust (3:54) Storm (3:53) Turned Into Air (3:20) And I Dream of Running (3:20) Lemon Queen (4:37)