Marissa Nadler’s built a nice little scaffolding of critical acclaim from her last couple albums, and during this time she’s admirably filled the gap between the likes of Josephine Foster and Joanna Newsom on the ethereal side, and St. Vincent and Feist on the populist side. Her airy, controlled approach is on display once again with Little Hells, the excellently titled follow-up to 2007’s Songs III: Bird on the Water. more ›