For more than 12 years, Marissa Nadler has perfected her own take on gothic American songform. On her seventh full-length, Strangers, out May 20^th on Sacred Bones, she has shed any self-imposed restrictions her earlier albums adhered to, stepped through a looking glass, and created a truly monumental work.

In the two years since 2014’s elegiac, autobiographical July, Nadler has reconciled the heartbreak so often a catalyst for her songwriting. Turning her writing to more universal themes, Nadler dives deep into a surreal, apocalyptic dreamscape. Her lyrics touch upon the loneliness and despair of the characters that inhabit them. These muses are primal, fractured, disillusioned, delicate, and alone. They are the unified voice of this record, the titular “strangers.”

Once again partnered with July producer Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth, Black Mountain) Nadler has created a new album equal in sonic quality to the apocalyptic lyrical tone that covers its 44 minutes.

Marissa Nadler – Strangers

(May 20^th, 2016 – Sacred Bones)

• Divers of the Dust
• Katie I Know
• Skyscraper
• Hungry Is the Ghost
• All the Colors of the Dark
• Strangers
• Janie In Love
• Waking
• Shadow Show Diane
• Nothing Feels the Same
• Dissolve

Marissa Nadler Tour Dates
May 18 – Brooklyn NY – Union Pool
May 24 – Brighton, UK – Prince Albert ^
May 25 – London, UK – St John on Bethnal Green
May 26 – Manchester, UK – Soup Kitchen ^
May 27 – Glasgow, UK – Broadcast ^
May 28 – Dublin, IE – Button Factory ^
May 29 – Cork, IE – Cyprus Avenue ^
May 31 – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club ^
June 1 – Bristol, UK – The Louisiana
June 2 – Lille, FR – La Péniche
June 3 – Paris, FR – FGO-Barbara
June 4 – Brugge, BE – Cactus Muziekcentrum
June 5 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso ^
June 7 – Hamburg, DE – MS Stubnitz
June 8 – Copenhagen, DK – VEGA ^
June 9 – Berlin, DE – Roter Salon
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July 5 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir ^*
July 6 – Boise, ID – Neurolux ^*
July 8 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court ^*
July 9 – Denver, CO – Lost Lake Lounge ^*
July 10 – Omaha, NE – Reverb Lounge ^*
July 11 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St Entry ^*
July 12 – Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle ^*
July 13 – Detroit, MI – El Club ^*
July 14 – Toronto, ON – Drake Hotel ^*
July 15 – Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa ^*
July 16 – Hudson, NY – The Half Moon ^*
July 19 – Boston, MA – Great Scott ^*
July 20 – Providence, RI – Aurora ^*
July 21 – NYC – Bowery Ballroom ^*
July 22 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s ^*
July 24 – Washington, D.C. – DC9 ^*
July 25 – Raleigh, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room ^*
July 26 – Atlanta, GA – The EARL ^*
July 27 – New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa ^*
July 29 – Austin, TX – The Sidewinder ^*
July 30 – Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves ^*
August 1 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar ^*
August 2 – San Diego, CA – Casbah ^*
August 3 – Los Angeles, CA – Echo ^*
August 4 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel ^*
August 5 – Big Sur, CA – Henry Miller Library ^*
August 7 – Vancouver, BC – Cobalt ^*
August 8 – Seattle, WA – Barbosa ^*

^ with Wrekmeister Harmonies
* with Muscle and Marrow