This ninth album by the Boston-based American singer-songwriter is a beautiful selection of slow, acoustic numbers rich in stories about individuals and inspired by the long-running TV documentary series Unsolved Mysteries. The pandemic lockdown brought this back to Nadler’s mind, and they concern forgotten people and lives cut short. “Did you make it?” she sings with a rich, lush, orchestral accompaniments on opener Bessie Did You Make It, a song about the 1928 wilderness explorers Bessie and Glen Hyde, ‘Bessie Did You Make It’, and the title track is an homage to 1971 plane hijacker D.B. Cooper, where she is joined in another gorgeous slow number by former Cocteau Twins bassist and Bella Union boss Simon Raymonde who also appears on a few other tracks. Harp player Mary Lattimore, Mercury Rev’s Jesse Chandler and multi-instrumentalist Milky Burgess also contribute. As ever, there is a haunting quality to her work, and it is particular appropriate for such subject matter of mystery and ghostliness. If I Could Breath Underwater, Elegy, the stark Lemon Queen, and Couldn’t Have Done The Killing are among the other standouts. A gorgeous, ghostly creation, shimmering with suspense and unhurried pace. Out on Bella Union.
The Path of the Clouds
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