MARISSA NADLER & STEPHEN BRODSKY - DRONEFLOWER VINYL (LTD. ED. MARBLE)

LIMITED EDITION MARBLE VINYL

Release Date: 26th April 2019

The gothic souls of Marissa Nadler and Cave In's Stephen Brodsky collide for a collaboration of drone-ful, beautifully dark, gothic folk music. Droneflower sounds timeless, like a futurist forging of a time-capsule from some by-gone gothic-folk era. Wonderful stuff! 

For Fans Of: Cave In, Grouper, Julia Holter, Heather Woods Broderick

"Droneflower is in bloom. The new collaboration between Marissa Nadler and Stephen Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man), is a sprawling and expansive exercise in contrasts. It is the sound of the war between the brutal and the ethereal, the dark and the light, the past and the present, and the real and imagined. Brodsky met Nadler for the first time in 2014 at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar when he came to see her play on her July tour, and they quickly became friends. Both of them had been wanting to explore songwriting that didn’t fit into their existing projects, and they soon became energized by the prospect of working together. One of the first ideas they discussed was a horror movie soundtrack, and while Droneflower isn’t that, it is a richly cinematic album. The first song that came together was “Dead West,” based around a beautiful acoustic guitar piece Brodsky wrote while living on Spy Pond, just outside of Nadler’s home base in Boston. By the time they started working on the song earnest, Brodsky had moved to Brooklyn. Nadler added lyrics and vocal melodies remotely, and it was obvious there was kismet in the collaboration. All the songs on Droneflower were recorded in home studios, and they throb with the frisson of that intimate environment. For much of the recording process, Brodsky would stop by the ramshackle studio that Nadler set up in Boston whenever he was in town visiting family. Songs like “For the Sun” were written on the spot there, lyrics and all. The lush ambient pieces “Space Ghost I” and “Space Ghost II” began as Brodsky piano compositions and were later fleshed out by additional instrumentation and Nadler’s inimitable vocals. Nadler and Brodsky also recorded two cover songs for the album — the epic Guns n’ Roses power ballad “Estranged” and Morphine’s beguiling “In Spite of Me.” Since childhood, Nadler had been transfixed by the “Estranged” video, and she and Brodsky breathe new life into the song here. Their take on “In Spite of Me” is invigorated by Morphine saxophonist Dana Colley, who ironically didn’t play on the original recording but is indispensable on this version."