“Marissa Nadler's latest album is a quiet revolution”
“Maybe this is a wild misreading, but Marissa Nadler doesn’t get nearly enough credit—or any at all, really—for having a sense of humor. Her wit is as dry as it as subtle on her eighth album, a collection of songs that are also disconsolate and foreboding. Those traits are how the Boston singer is more generally known, and for good enough reason: Nadler favors a harrowing folk sound that she calls ”
“On her moody eighth album, the Boston singer-songwriter examines the icy terrain of marital strife through the lens of her habitual gothic folk.”
“For My Crimes goes for a more stripped-back sound than its predecessor, and is just about as captivating.”
“Marissa Nadler deserves an award for her prolificacy. The American singer-songwriter has released eight records since her 2004 debut – and that’s not counting a string of EPs. But her latest effort, ‘For My Crimes’, is frustratingly subtle growth from the ‘freak folk’ storyteller who’s surely ready to head in a bolder direction. That’s not to say that Nadler hasn’t surpassed the boundaries of her”
