This Friday, September 28, Marissa Nadler is releasing her eighth studio album For My Crimes. Our Song of the Day, “Blue Vapor,” is the haunting early single from it that features harmonies from Kristin Kontrol (of Dum Dum Girls) and Patty Schemel (of Hole) on drums. The slow-burning single comes with a noir-ish video by Thomas McMahan.
“[Director] Thomas McMahan beautifully articulates the intangible sense of depersonalization depicted in the song,” says Nadler. “He makes some heads explode and incinerates everything in sight. He does so beautifully and seamlessly and leaves Blue Vapor a gorgeous monochromatic world to exist in. Taking an abstract approach, he utilizes various experimental and mixed media animation techniques, merging the mood and imagery of the song with hallucinatory visuals that make me go ‘wow’ like I wanted to. His videos for Autolux and Drab Majesty, among many others, really stand apart for me in their uniqueness and artfulness. I hope to make more videos with Thomas because he has an amazing ability to transform the mundane into the supernatural.”
For My Crimes follows 2016’s Strangers. Watch the video for “Blue Vapor” and Nadler’s KEXP in-studio performance from 2016 below.
