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The Sister

Marissa Nadler

The Sister

Album number six from the Boston-based dream folk singer-songwriter

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7.0

Label
Box of Cedar
UK Release date
21/05/2012
US Release date
29/05/2012
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  1. 9.0 |   Paste Magazine

    An impressive concoction of stark minimalism
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  2. 8.3 |   A.V. Club

    As heart-stopping as The Sister is, though, it feels more like an appendix to her body of work than a fresh, essential sequel
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  3. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    This is wistful, melancholic music for those quiet moments alone
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  4. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A great record for many reasons – Nadler’s voice and playing being two – but it’s the frank and realistic portrayals of relationships that makes what could have been a difficult record so engaging and easy to relate to
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  5. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Personal, introspective, yet shot through with an otherworldly melancholy
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  6. 7.5 |   Prefix

    The Sister is Marissa Nadler looking down and realizing that she has recently written eight good songs. No context, no drama, no storyline, just, you know, music
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  7. 7.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Nadler seems to be maturing as an artist at just the right pace. From here she can do whatever she wishes with her sound
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  8. 7.0 |   Pitchfork

    Feels like the first minor album of her career
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  9. 6.0 |   PopMatters

    The album stretches out into haunting space, creating fragile yet bracing musical foundations for Nadler’s echo-touched, hypnotizing voice
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  10. 6.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    In the end, it’s a bit disappointing to see her regress from the bold moves she made on 2011's Marissa Nadler, but it seems to be the trade-off we’ve made for The Sister‘s lyrical clarity
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  11. 6.0 |   Spin

    Yet another dreamy stream of spectral folk that, too often, drifts by more than it haunts
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  12. 4.0 |   Under The Radar

    Its eight bucolic tunes never amounting to anything greater than the sum of their parts
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