Marissa Nadler 'Little Hells' album

Kemado Records is proud to announce the latest release from renowned Boston singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler: Little Hells. On her fourth solo album, Marissa Nadler finds multiple ways to envelop the listener in splendid gauzy moods without becoming monochromatic. “The songs take on different personalities at different points in time,” says Nadler. “If a song is good, you should be able to do it in any style and transform it, take a risk and have some fun.”

A master of creating rich dreamscape atmospheres, Nadler’s voice shines and glides even more with a full band accompanying her. Produced by Chris Coady, the starry musical guests include longtime collaborator Myles Baer, Simone Pace (Blonde Redhead), and Dave Scher (Farmer Dave). Few contemporary artists can match the stunning ride of Marissa's reverb vocals that are a journey into themselves on every rose tinged track. Little Hells displays a brighter leap in musical maturity and attention to detail, as the fantasmagoric sounds delve into melancholy nuggets, sometimes erotic, sometimes gutting, but filled with a gorgeous sense of serene hope more so than previous album, Songs III: Bird on the Water.

Building on her hazy sonic foundations, Nadler ventures into territory as varied as the Brill Building-tinged pulse of “Mary Come Alive” and the title track’s old-time country loam -- a trek that’s both breathtakingly scenic and psychically compelling.

Sadness can be found in the undercurrents of Little Hells, to be sure. But there are just as many moments of serene reflection and quiet contentment in pleasures as simple as the warmth of the sun or the scent of flowers -- the latter of which permeates several of the new album’s offerings. That mixing of tones affords Little Hells both delicacy and strength -- a balance that, it might be said, exists in Marissa Nadler herself.

press quotes
"Sub-zero temperatures, snow quietly cascading onto barren branches, and Marissa Nadler playing on the stereo; some things were just made for each other. Hopefully snow will still be falling on some parts of the world come March 3, as that's when Ms. Nadler's due to drop her fourth full-length, Little Hells.?" -- Pitchfork

"Ms. Nadler suggested Joan Baez gone Gothic and 21st century. She brings a limpid soprano voice to ballad melodies, and she often uses the serene fingerpicking that the 1960s folkies learned from Elizabeth Cotten’s version of “Freight Train.” But both her voice and her guitar were surrounded in otherworldly reverb, a long way from Appalachia." -- Jon Pareles, NY Times

Marissa Nadler tour dates
February 14 Iron Horse Music Hall Northampton, MA
February 15 Café Nine New Haven, CT
February 21 Club Passim Cambridge, MA
February 27 Lutheran Church of the Messiah Brooklyn, NY
April 16 400 Bar Minneapolis, MN
April 18 Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL
April 19 Schubas Tavern Chicago, IL
April 21 El Mocambo Club Toronto, ON
April 25 Highline Ballroom New York, NY
April 26 IOTA Arlington, VA

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