Marissa Nadler Returns With ‘New Radiations’ Album & Shares Haunting Title Track

Marissa Nadler will release a new album entitled New Radiations on August 15 through Sacred Bones. The singer-songwriter previewed her 10th full-length release with the title track lead single.

Nadler produced New Radiations, which follows her 2021 album The Path Of The Clouds and its 2022 companion EP, The Wrath Of The Clouds. Recording sessions took place in Nashville at Haptown Studios with assistance from Roger Moutenot and at Nadler’s home studio. While her recent albums featured several guests, New Radiations sees Nadler joined only by her frequent cohort Milky Burgess on guitar and synthesizers.

“My narrator (whether these are first-person songs or not, really depends on how you want to listen to them) is feeling stuck, depressed, and frozen in a world after a tough few years for the world,” Nadler said of the album’s title track. “Regardless, the ‘psychic vibrations and new radiations’ take their toll. The cosmic darkness we live in creeps into the psyche — but the character reaches clarity. As the song unfolds, the screen shatters, the ice breaks, and a new world begins.”

Nadler directed the video for “New Radiations,” which incorporates analog film and digital elements, as well as Nadler original artwork.

“My aim was to distort space and time into a kind of dreamspace through layered imagery and effects,” Nadler said of the visual. “The video slips between dimensions — surreal landscapes, dissolving faces, collapsing structures, distant explosions, underwater worlds.”

New Radiations Tracklist

1. It Hits Harder
2. Bad Dreams Summertime
3. You Called Her Camellia
4. Smoke Screen Selene
5. New Radiations
6. If It’s An Illusion
7. Hatchet Man
8. Light Years
9. Weightless Above The Water
10. To Be The Moon King
11. Sad Satellite