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Songs III: Bird on the Water is a dark and atmospheric record and Nadler’s most personal to date. Thematically she relates to characters living on the fringes of society. The songs revolve around the demise of a love relationship as well as eulogies and dirges.
For the uninitiated, Marissa Nadler grew up in a small town in Massachusetts, where perhaps the brutal winters bred into her a chilly disposition and an early propensity for the darker and more melancholy side of things. Marissa's first appearance saw her covering Pearls Before Swine's “Ballad of the Amber Lady” for a compilation released by Jeffrey Alexander (The Iditarod, Black Forest/Black Sea) whilst she was still attending the Rhode ..
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