bird on the water

She has a voice that, in mythological times, could have lured men to their deaths at sea, an intoxicating soprano drenched in gauzy reverb that hits bell-clear heights, lingers, and tapers off like rings of smoke...
--The Boston Globe

Seems like I've been talking about Marissa Nadler quite a bit lately, and with good reason. Her upcoming album Songs III: Bird on the Water, due out February 12 on Peacefrog, evokes the same feelings I had the first time I heard Milk-Eyed Mender or Just Another Diamond Day. This isn't to say that it belongs in the same class as those albums, or is sonically similar to them; it's just one of those things that makes your heart ache. Her voice is strikingly sad and haunting, and her new album (produced by Greg Weeks of Espers) features a more layered sound. "Dying Breed" is what people are talking about when they call Nadler's songs "ghost ballads."

Marissa Nadler Dying Breed mp3

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also:

Don't forget about this show tonight at Club Dada, Dallas. It'll be a good one:

The Early Tapes Let Me Go mp3
Teenage Symphony Our Sad Prayer mp3
The Dimes listen at their myspace page here