American singer/songwriter Marissa Nadler divides her time between making music and painting. But her songs also look like static tableaux: darkly tinted and haunted by atmosphere. Her self-produced The Path Of The Clouds is Nadler's most stylistic, but also most morbid album. The dreamy folk of earlier albums gave way to a much darker and gothic sound, with lingering rhythms, droning keys and jagged
… guitars. During the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, Nadler not only learned to play the piano, but also lost herself in the true crime genre. Tales of people who strangely disappeared and other murder-related stories then found their way into the songs of The Path Of The Clouds. Sung with her darkly sultry voice, that content only gains darkness and mystery. (MR)more
