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9.0
87122
9.0 |
The Quietus
Strangers is quite simply an understated tour de force by a now experienced composer and performer
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8.5
87164
8.5 |
The 405
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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8.3
87017
8.3 |
Consequence Of Sound
Strangers‘ 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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8.0
87163
8.0 |
Spectrum Culture
An album of refinement rather than reinvention
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8.0
86893
8.0 |
Mojo
If David Lynch were looking to soundtrack dreamlike disassociation, he need look no further
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8.0
86895
8.0 |
Uncut
An album that seems to exist in some hinterland between dream, nightmare and reality. Print edition only
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8.0
86899
8.0 |
Spin
Nadler continues to find new wrinkles in a style she’s been carefully refining for years
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8.0
86847
8.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
Strangers feels and sounds like a breakthrough album, a set of linked short stories set to music
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8.0
86848
8.0 |
The Music
It's utterly dreamy, but within the elegant perfumed beauty of these tunes there is a dark and brooding gothic edge
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8.0
86997
8.0 |
Exclaim
Nadler seems to have her perfected her craft, adding even more confidence to keep her winning streak alive and well
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8.0
87414
8.0 |
Gig Soup
While expanding the range of her shadowy and ethereal folk, Marissa Nadler has opened up lyrically and compiled a more accessible group of recordings
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8.0
87518
8.0 |
God Is In The TV
A magnificent, heartstopping album
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7.7
87138
7.7 |
Paste Magazine
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
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7.6
87117
7.6 |
Pitchfork
Marissa Nadler opens up her sound slightly, retaining her grey-skies aesthetic while bringing in a more spacious and rock-oriented sound
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7.5
87264
7.5 |
Earbuddy
These songs are substantive in their own right, but the highlights of Strangers reveals Nadler’s true potential and what she is capable of
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7.0
87112
7.0 |
Drowned In Sound
When Strangers really kicks into gear – as it most notably does on its extraordinary centrepiece ‘Hungry is the Ghost’, a cascading, slow motion, six-minute roar of distortion that takes her into something bordering on shoe gaze territory – it’s completely breathtaking
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7.0
86859
7.0 |
musicOMH
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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7.0
86901
7.0 |
Under The Radar
Strangers deserves to be heard by a much wider audience. Here's hoping Nadler finds it
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7.0
86933
7.0 |
PopMatters
Marissa Nadler’s newest release is the type of solid work we've come to expect from her
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6.0
86846
6.0 |
The Skinny
Style over substance
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6.0
87554
6.0 |
Tiny Mix Tapes
Strangers is the alien, a presence, a present. It’s Annabel Lee finally aware of what jerks the angels are, the sound of her shouting back at the ocean
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