With her romantic tales supported by some stunning arrangements, there's beauty here that is built upon real substance.  Full text...

It's a 12-track breakup album detailing Nadler's pervasive loneliness, her gentle finger-style guitar augmented with cello, percussion, mandolin, synthesizers, and electric guitars. Her voice is remarkable from the outset-- a sad, husky air that climbs to perfect grace notes with ease-- but by the time Nadler sings, "Oh my lonely diamond heart/ It misses you so well," 100 seconds into opener "Diamond Heart", you're pretty sure you've heard this one before.  Full text...

Loss never sounded so pretty.  Full text...

Although Nadler's twelve-string acoustic and haunting mezzo-soprano still form the core of her sound, Weeks's fingerprints are all over the album. Bird on the Water is much more diverse sonically, with a variety of instruments (cello, organ, electric guitar) incorporated into the mix  Full text...

This album is just as magical as the first two albums but I feel that something is missing here. It feels that the production is a little different, not quite as eerie as the first album for sure. But the songs are amazing.  Full text...

All of these songs are of a slow tempo and velvet cloth, and all of them are steeped in a gentle melancholy, so, yes: it is all a little monotonous and predictable.  Full text...

It's beautiful, comforting music to hanker down in your duvet to.   Full text...