Run To Ruin
- Nina Nastasia
- Band Name: Nina Nastasia
- Record Label: Touch & Go
- Release Date: Jun 3, 2003
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90A beautiful album of uniqueness and unfailing spirit. [#23, p.96]
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90These intimate hushes and lilts would be remarkable even as instrumentals.... Yet it's Nastasia's voice--and the words that it sings--that really sucks the air out of the room. [July 2003, p.102]
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90Spare, beautiful, outstanding. [Jul 2003, p.128]
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88Her countrified songs often begin as gothic lullabies, swallowed up in darkness and longing, as if the instruments themselves were suffering heartbreak. [#6, p.82]
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Nastasia’s pen has sharpened greatly since The Blackened Air. No more does she scratch out mental images and feelings into terse songs, but builds upon those images and experiences -- placing the listener in her worn, ragged shoes -- instead of in our Gucci’s, 20 feet away, behind a chained link fence.
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What keeps Nastasia from succumbing to grotesque melodrama is the razor-like incisiveness she brings to her lyrics.
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WayX10Simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring.
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zg9beautiful although I find I listen ti the Blackened Air more-- have to be in the mood for Run to Ruin