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Strangers

Marissa Nadler

Strangers

Seventh album from the Boston indie folk singer-songwriter, produced by longtime collaborator Randall Dunn

ADM rating[?]

7.6

Label
Sacred Bones
UK Release date
20/05/2016
US Release date
20/05/2016
  1. 9.0 |   The Quietus

    Strangers is quite simply an understated tour de force by a now experienced composer and performer
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 8.0 |   Spectrum Culture

    An album of refinement rather than reinvention
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  5. 8.0 |   Mojo

    If David Lynch were looking to soundtrack dreamlike disassociation, he need look no further
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  6. 8.0 |   Uncut

    An album that seems to exist in some hinterland between dream, nightmare and reality. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   Spin

    Nadler continues to find new wrinkles in a style she’s been carefully refining for years
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    A magnificent, heartstopping album
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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Style over substance
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  21. 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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