Name: The Path Of The Clouds
Brand: Marissa Nadler

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SBR280lp-C1

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Colour

Silver

Colour details

Silver Vinyl

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Discogs ID

[r20776255]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

843563142417

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Total Cap

Silver LP

SBR280cd

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Extended format: No

843563142479

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

SBR280lp

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Black

843563142400

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Marissa Nadler

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Sacred Bones Records

Marissa Nadler is an American singer-songwriter and painter, born on April 5, 1981 in Washington D.C., USA. With her captivating voice and introspective lyrics, she has established herself as a prominent figure in the folk music scene. Her unique blend of haunting melodies and poetic storytelling creates a mesmerizing listening experience for her fans. In addition to her musical talents, Marissa is also an accomplished painter, showcasing her creativity across different artistic mediums. Explore Marissa Nadler's enchanting world of music and art.

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The Path of the Clouds, Marissa Nadler’s ninth solo album, is the most stylistically adventurous, lyrically transfixing, and melodically sophisticated collection of songs in her already rich discography. Gripped by wanderlust while suddenly housebound at the start of the pandemic in 2020, Nadler escaped into writing, and came back with a stunning set of songs about metamorphosis, love, mysticism, and murder. Blurring the line between reality and fantasy and moving freely between past and present, these 11 deeply personal, self-produced songs find Nadler exploring new landscapes, both sonic and emotional.

Nadler tracked the skeletons of the songs at home and then sent them to some choice collaborators, including experimental harpist Mary Lattimore and Simon Raymonde, the Cocteau Twins bassist and her Lost Horizons collaborator. Multi-instrumentalist Milky Burgess, having recently worked on the soundtrack to the film Mandy, adds intricate melodic power throughout the album. Jesse Chandler, Nadler’s piano teacher (as well as a member of Mercury Rev and Midlake), plays winding woodwinds and plaintive piano to luminous effect. Fellow singer-songwriter Emma Ruth Rundle contributes a slinky guitar solo on “Turned Into Air,” while Black Mountain’s Amber Webber steps in as a vocal foil to Nadler, a ghostly apparition in the distance of “Elegy.” Seth Manchester, known for his work with Lingua Ignota, Battles, and Lightning Bolt, mixed the album at Machines with Magnets in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Manchester added dimension to the songs’ atmospheric beauty with screeching feedback and distorted guitars. Stripped of the ethereal reverb that often swaddles her resonant vocals, Nadler’s delivery now stings and pierces with newfound immediacy and confidence.

The Path of the Clouds showcases the power of an artist at the peak of her powers nearly 20 years into an acclaimed career as a songwriter and singer. Coming a long way from the spare dream folk of her earlier work, she has remained inspired and continues to evolve, open to new ideas and directions. The proof is right here, in Nadler’s most ambitious and complex album yet.

The Path Of The Clouds

Music US

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