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Jun 13, 2016Throughout, Strangers is quite simply an understated tour de force by a now experienced composer and performer, able to convey a feeling and lead the way within it in equal measure.
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May 23, 2016Strangers is an astounding combination of styles that takes music that is fairly usual, and turns it into something completely unique that strikes slowly but deeply, and irrevocably.
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May 20, 2016Strangers‘ ambition is its greatest asset, and because of Nadler’s own ambition, there is reason to believe she could get better still.
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MagnetJun 1, 2016Marissa Nadler’s sixth studio record finds the Boston-based singer creating beautiful, sweeping songs that feel as ethereal as the last dream before dawn. [No. 131, p.59]
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May 27, 2016Nadler can’t be pinned down, and all of Strangers is an indication of that new challenge she both creates and meets.
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May 18, 2016On Strangers, Nadler seems to have her perfected her craft, adding even more confidence to keep her winning streak alive and well.
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May 16, 2016In all respects, Strangers is about coming to terms with one’s situation, and what it lacks in blind hope it makes up for with thoughtful consideration. That care is what assures the record’s grace and splendor.
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May 12, 2016If David Lynch were looking to soundtrack dreamlike disassociation, he need look no further. [Jun 2016, p.91]
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May 12, 2016Another fautless collection from Nadler, fast becoming one of the most distinctive voices in American music. There’s comfort in melancholy, as someone once said.
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UncutMay 12, 2016It is intimate, sometimes almost conversational, and words are sighed, whispered, confided. Oddly, the more she pulls back, the more epic it sounds. [Jun 2016, p.68]
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May 12, 2016Strangers feels and sounds like a breakthrough album, a set of linked short stories set to music. Having built a head of steam with her previous six records, album number seven sounds like Nadler’s waiting game is at an end.
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May 20, 2016Strangers is in many ways more dynamic than some of Nadler’s previous efforts, balancing the ethereal atmospherics with musical movement that adds a sense of foreboding, as if Nadler were singing calmly in the face of an onrushing apocalypse.
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May 23, 2016As Nadler exorcises her own demons, she brings you along with her, making you feel a little less anxious about your own despair. She sees poetry in the mundane, elegance in the gloom.
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May 27, 2016The nuanced musical and sonic sophistication on display here is an extension of the songwriter's signature sound, which has perhaps become more accessible. That said, these changes mark development, not compromise.
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May 23, 2016When the music is less overwhelming, you notice that July knob-twiddler Randall Dunn’s clean production and Nadler’s move away from the depths of morbidity have changed something about her music.
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May 18, 2016Despite the ominous lyrical content, Nadler creates music with warmth, grace and genuine humility.
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May 18, 2016As Nadler’s language is mostly monochromatic, the drum help nudge the album forward; her very own John Wesley Harding.
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May 16, 2016Nadler forges ahead on her seventh album, Strangers, with a mix that comfortably sits within her typical sullen-to-sinister range.
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May 16, 2016te. For the most part Strangers succeeds because of its strangeness, but when that strangeness slips, the album as a whole does too.
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Positive: 27 out of 32
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Mixed: 3 out of 32
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