Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler is a singer-songwriter who has been creating dark, gloomy, gothic folk songs since the early '00s, often on solo acoustic guitar and her hazy, dreamy voice telling stories about love and loss. She broke her mold in 2021 with The Path of the Clouds, a pandemic album inspired by various unsolved mysteries that saw her add some indie rock elements into her music, dust off the old piano, and add more instrumental layers, all of this without straying far from her comfortable low tempo range. Her more customary style, on the other hand, is grounded firmly in quiet ballads with pared down arrangements, delivered in a brooding tone and a voice with a haunting quality. Her guitar work is as sharp as it may be delicate at times. She adopted some darkwave tones in her 2019 album with Stephen Brodsky, Droneflower.