Marissa Nadler on Wordless Singing, Her Mysterious Persona, and Crowdsourcing As Therapy

By Rachael Maddux, eMusic Contributor

Marissa Nadler often seems like a woman out of time. She's barely 30 years old and has only been releasing records since 2004, but between the shadowy themes of her lyrics, her darkly-syncopated acoustic guitar and her curling mezzo-soprano, it can be tough to suss out whether she's haunted by the specters of a long-passed world or if she's doing the haunting herself. Except that ghosts, of course, can't be dropped from their record labels. Nor… more »