★★★★★
In the permafrost clutch of a relentless winter, it can be easy to forget how oppressive the heat of the summer can be. Marissa Nadler calls this album July, but you'd be forgiven for wrapping it around you like a cloak in January, abandoning the struggle to keep warm and diving headlong into the cold. At least you'd be making the choice...
- cokemachineglow.com
2014-03-15
★★★★★
Available on: Bella Union Darkness and gloom have become something of a common aesthetic pose these last few years, so it's always refreshing to find an artist who wears the black naturally, and without pretence. Marissa Nadler is one of those artists. Hailing from suburban Massachusetts, she put out her first LP, Ballads Of Living And Dying, on Eclipse in 2004, a release that saw her lumped in with the freak folk/New Weird America movement...
- www.factmag.com
2014-03-11
★★★★★
An initially unlikely partnershipthat, if you think about, makesperfect sense, July sees folkgothicsinger songwriterMarissa Nadler team up withproducer Randall Dunn, bestknown for his work with dronestalwarts Earth and Sunn O))).Dunn's experience in capturingthe extremities of noisedemanded by those bandsstands him in good stead here. He contributesa spectral ambience to thespare, sad songs, creatinga spooked Americana thatcompliments Nadler's subjectmatter perfectly.
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-02-27
★★★★★
www.sacredbonesrecords.com
BY STEVEN ROSEN
Marissa Nadler's soprano voice is like the smoothest elevator ride you'll ever take. It rises slowly, leveling off for brief peaceful stops before resuming to reach its high - somewhere in the clouds.
On July, her sixth album, the Boston singer-songwriter gets an almost-hallucinatory effect out of her singing, often multi-tracking the voice to create a ghostly pillowing effect...
- blurtonline.com
2014-02-22
★★★★★
The sixth album from New England's Marissa Nadler is a moody affair that would be more appropriate to a chilly, Antipodean July. Still, as we've recently been reminded, a heatwave can be as uncomfortable and threatening than a bitterly cold winter. And, going by the haunting, painful experiences recalled on this collection, Nadler had more on her mind than the weather when she wrote these songs. The darker Nadler's work, the more powerful her force...
- www.beat.com.au
2014-02-20
★★★★★
One of the real dangers of writing about music, particularly new music, is that it's very easy to get too excited about new artists too soon. You could make a sizable box set out of the debut albums that garnered critical acclaim only to fade into obscurity a few short years later. In this hype-driven environment, it's a rare occasion when an artist is allowed to develop their craft and deliver on the promise that many writers see and some mistake for immediate greatness...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-02-20
★★★★★
Marissa Nadler -- July (Sacred Bones)
When you realize you've taken an artist's music for granted, it's never a good feeling. Marissa Nadler's music first arose in a theoretically familiar place: think folk revival and you're on the right track. At the time, you might have seen her name in trend pieces beside those of Espers members Greg Weeks and Meg Baird.
And it made sense...
- dustedmagazine.tumblr.com
2014-02-20
★★★★★
Breakup albums aren't typically joyful affairs. Add the always melancholy Marissa Nadler to the equation and you have a pity party waiting to happen. That's not to undermine the sheer eerie beauty of these sad songs. Her singing is so honest, restrained and touching, it's impossible to imagine she recorded them without shedding a few tears...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2014-02-18
★★★★★
Marissa Nadler, July
Marissa Nadler's limnetic new album, July, is both eerie and soothing, a lullaby written to induce nightmares. Burrow deeper and the odd hallucinatory qualities reveal themselves; images blend, fade and reform with no real discernible pattern. This album is composed of memories, the kind that your mind tries to reshape over time to shield you from what really happened...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2014-02-15
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