“The dark austerity of "Dead City Emily" grounds much of the work from Marissa Nadler, the New England singer-songwriter who is moving to Brooklyn label Sacred Bones with her next LP. Almost on cue, this is Nadler at her most blackened sound—from the evocative and properly gothic titular refrain, to the windy synth texture, to the piercing chill that circles through the hypnotic fingerpicked notes.”
