Marissa Nadler announces new album "New Radiations" out 15th August via Bella Union || Shares video for LP title track

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photo credit: Ebru Yildiz

Marissa Nadler announces new album New Radiations out 15th August via Bella Union / Sacred Bones

Shares striking B&W video for LP title track

Marissa Nadler announces her new album New Radiations due out 15th August in the UK/Europe via Bella Union, Sacred Bones in North America, and available to preorder here. The last we heard from Marissa Nadler, she was soaring through The Path of the Clouds and its companion EP, The Wrath of the Clouds. Now, on her tenth official full‑length record, New Radiations, she returns with a raw, intimate, and breathtaking collection of eleven otherworldly songs. To accompany today’s announcement Nadler has shared the album’s captivating title track “New Radiations” alongside a striking black & white video which can be viewed HERE.

Reflecting on the song “New Radiations” Marissa Nadler says: “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. 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.”

The accompanying self-directed video for “New Radiations” is a richly textured visual world that mirrors the song’s surreal and emotional landscape. Created using a blend of digital and analogue film, as well as Nadler’s own paintings, drawings, photographs, and collages, the video weaves together a fragmented, dreamlike narrative. “My aim was to distort space and time into a kind of dreamspace through layered imagery and effects,” Nadler explains. “The video slips between dimensions—surreal landscapes, dissolving faces, collapsing structures, distant explosions, underwater worlds.” Some of the footage was captured on 16mm film by artist Jenni Hensler in her New York studio. The rest was filmed by Nadler in her Nashville workspace, where she used fog and lighting to evoke a grainy, unstable atmosphere reminiscent of old film—“imperfect in a way I love,” she says.

From the first note of New Radiations, Nadler’s lush voice and intricate fingerpicking are front and centre. She layers Everly Brothers–style harmonies over dreamlike, lonesome soundscapes—fuzzed‑out distortion, Hammond organ, and ominous synthesizers—that elevate her warm vulnerability with texture and atmosphere. Each track unfolds like a vignette of a life lived, delivering emotional weight that “hits harder” with the curtain pulled back.

Lyrically, she shape-shifts through time and space—inhabiting characters in an airborne Cessna, a spaceship, a getaway car, and alternate dimensions. Her storytelling is cinematic in scope and deeply personal in impact. On the opener, she’s an aviator set on acceptance: “I will fly around the world just to forget you / Try not to hit the mountains as I pass through / Blinded by sandstorms, no sight of the land below / My little Cessna’s due west, and I had to go.”

On the title track, she intones: “Psychic vibrations and new radiations have taken their toll on me,” a sentiment as timely as it is haunting, as she tries to “break the glass, tie up the ending of the scene.” In the woozy do‑op of “Bad Dreams Summertime,” she braces for impact as the world crashes down, painting nocturnal horrors in vivid detail.

Throughout New Radiations, the contrast between sweet, catchy melodies and dark, visceral lyrics runs deep. In “Light Years,” she recalls: “Back in the day, you were all the rage, when you could still hypnotize her… you used to see light years inside her, you used to be right there beside her.”

In “You Called Her Camellia,” the narrator laments, “This wasn’t the deal! (Her fading away),” while “Smoke Screen Selene” warns, “Don’t you let her destroy you like I did.” On the cosmic murder ballad “Hatchet Man,” a chilling hotel scene unfolds: “The angel made him do it and he made me watch—he thought no one would notice her gone,” as the narrator flees into the night.

“To Be the Moon King,” inspired by the father of modern rocketry, follows a man writing codes backward in mirrors and tinkering with backyard rockets to reach “Saturn’s rings, burning.” Whether singing from the first person narrative or channelling these other people, the album taps into the universality of love and loss with gravitas and empathy. It culminates in the luminous closing track “Sad Satellite,” where she admits, “I mistook you for the sky,” leaving us suspended between longing and release.

Produced by Nadler herself and mixed by Randall Dunn (Earth, Sunn O))), New Radiations features subtle instrumental arrangements from longtime collaborator Milky Burgess—woozy slide guitar, hypnagogic synthesizers, and gritty riffs. Genre‑bending yet quintessentially her own, this album freezes the world’s noise in a moment of beauty and solemnity. New Radiations is not just another Marissa Nadler album—it’s a career highlight, a testament to her singular vision and artistry.

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 Its An Illusion

7. Hatchet Man

8. Light Years

9. Weightless Above The Water

10. To Be The Moon King

11. Sad Satellite