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New Radiations

Marissa Nadler

New Radiations

Album number ten from the Nashville-based indie folk singer-songwriter

ADM rating[?]

7.1

Label
Bella Union
UK Release date
15/08/2025
US Release date
15/08/2025
  1. 8.5 |   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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  2. 8.0 |   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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  3. 8.0 |   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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  4. 8.0 |   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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  5. 7.0 |   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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  6. 7.0 |   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

  7. 6.0 |   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

  8. 6.0 |   The Arts Desk

    The self-produced 'New Radiations' is an ethereal album which is also very sparse
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