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Behind the oblique, somewhere in hiding in the shadows and the painted references to the black and white world of Folk music stands Marissa Nadler.

Ms. Nadler’s sixth studio album follows the same unique path that she has ploughed all her career. Intelligent and heartfelt lyrics with a point wrapped up in the enigma of the feeling of enforced solitude, the loneliness that the brave and inspired crave but coming out just enough to spread a tale or two of spell binding quality before shutting the door completely.