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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler was self-produced and mixed by Randall Dunn.
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- Record Label: Sacred Bones
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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Aug 14, 2025"Bad Dreams Summertime" is a standout among a truly immersive set, thanks largely to ghostly girl group-type backing vocals, shifting tonal centers, and lyrics that confuse time, imagination, and reality ("False recollections, the wrong soundtrack").
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Record CollectorSep 5, 2025It benefits from listening in stillness rather than on a speedy walk. [Oct 2025, p.132]
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The WireAug 14, 2025Its comforting gloom draws you closer and closer, extending an invitation to lose yourself that could easily be mistaken for escapism. But this music is one of presence, not absence. [Sep 2025, p.61]
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Aug 21, 2025New Radiations may be intimate and personal, but it’s more of a short story collection than a diary. That is to its credit, as it makes the material more universal, more relatable.
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UncutAug 14, 2025Nadler's richly layered vocals are especially enthralling whenever she applies her featherlight delivery to ideas and images that subvert her music's surface appearance of serentiy. [Sep 2025, p.33]
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MojoAug 14, 2025New radiations is not without moments of ponderous stasis. Nadler still shines as a spell-weaver and mistress of moods, though. [Sep 2025, p.79]