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8.5
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Northern Transmissions
While New Radiations may be Marissa Nadler’s most stripped-down album yet, it confirms her strength as a vulnerable storyteller in an era of frequent isolation
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8.0
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All Music
"Bad Dreams Summertime" is a standout among a truly immersive set, thanks largely to ghostly girl group-type backing vocals, shifting tonal centers, and lyrics that confuse time, imagination, and reality ("False recollections, the wrong soundtrack")
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
It feels like the album Nadler’s been building to her whole career – an amalgamation of the influences she’s been touching on throughout her discography
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8.0
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PopMatters
Marissa Nadler’s tenth studio album, New Radiations, is her most raw, stripped-down, and intimate to date. It’s also one of her best
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7.0
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Far Out
Sonic and atmospheric retreads aside, Nadler has conjured an impressive 10th LP effort that whisks away the listener to a plane far removed from the choking contemporary, a place both trepidatious and eerily comforting
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7.0
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Uncut
Nadler's richly layered vocals are especially enthralling whenever she applies her featherlight delivery to ideas and images that subvert her music's surface appearance of serentiy. Print edition only
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6.0
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Mojo
New radiations is not without moments of ponderous stasis. Nadler still shines as a spell-weaver and mistress of moods, though. Print edition only
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6.0
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The Arts Desk
The self-produced 'New Radiations' is an ethereal album which is also very sparse
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