Marissa Nadler Shares Video For New Tune “Hatchet Man”
New Radiations Due Out August 15 by way of Sacred Bones and Bella Union
Jul 08, 2025
Pictures by Ebru Yildiz
Marissa Nadler has shared a self-made video for the brand new single “Hatchet Man” forward of her new album New Radiations, set to be launched August 15 by way of Sacred Bones and Bella Union. See the video for the brand new single beneath.
New Radiations can be Nadler’s tenth full-length report, trailing 2021’s The Path of the Clouds and its companion EP The Wrath of the Clouds, launched in 2022. She additionally most just lately collaborated with Amenra and Cave In on a group of Townes Van Zandt covers.
On the brand new observe, Nadler says in a press launch: “Psychic vibrations and new radiations have taken their toll on me. My narrator (whether or not these are first individual songs or probably not is dependent upon the way you need to hearken to them) is feeling caught, depressed, and frozen in a world after a tricky few years for the world. Regardless, the ‘psychic vibrations and new radiations’ take their toll. The cosmic darkness we reside in creeps into the psyche—however the character reaches readability. Because the tune unfolds, the display shatters, the ice breaks, and a brand new world begins.”
“Hatchet Man” follows the discharge of the brand new album’s title observe.
She additionally spoke on the method behind the music video. “I made the video for ‘Hatchet Man’ utilizing cut-out shadow figures, on a regular basis objects, liquid mild present methods and self-shot footage—a lot of it projected by the tender glow of an previous overhead projector. I wished to create a surreal, crimson house for the tune and its characters to reside in, to inform the story with out being too illustrative. This album is a very private and intimate one in my physique of labor, and so taking pictures the video myself and in my very own actuality provides a particular synchronicity to those visible accompaniments that I’m making for every of the songs.”
