Marissa Nadler – Songs III: Bird On The Water
With a ghostly mezzo-soprano voice and a notebook bleeding out sorrowful songs, Marissa Nadler offers up a Gothic concoction that immediately envisions Mazzy Star reading the haunting tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Assisted and recorded by Greg Weeks and his Philadelphian allies who combine to form the neo pysch-folk outfit Espers, these songs are strengthen by their extra studio touches, though not to say her two previous self recorded albums are any less engaging. But when Greg Weeks opens up his acid drenched guitar leads on both “Bird On Your Grave” and “Rachel”, he emotes the same crying aches as Nadler’s sung lyrics, like two tears longitudinal falling together. But from start to finish, this is still the delightful workings of a single gifted talent. With her John Fahey style guitar leanings and a voice that recalls the melancholy of wistful recollection, this aches with same tragic beauty as a slo-motion, cinematic death scene. You just can’t turn away.
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