On Leaving
The hauntingly beautiful new album from Nina Nastasia arrives perfectly formed and long overdue. Nina's fourth album, On Leaving, finds the hugely talented, NYC-based singer-songwriter at her best. Nina Nastasia's rare gift of a voice is an intimate, winged presence that is able to either freeze or melt your heart, that can powerfully soar and twist, or brush ultra-gently against you, suddenly summoning goose bumps. Mojo commented on its ability to "suck the air out of the room". Simultaneously tough and fragile, her songs crackle and smolder with an intimate emotional honesty and a dark undertow.
Despite moving from Touch and Go to Fat Cat, the underrated songstress again worked with Steve Albini on the creation of her latest album, a sparse record that eschews the eclecticism of 2003's Run to Ruin and pulls back on experimentation.
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I heard Nina Nastasia for the first time two years ago on a Songlines covermount CD. She was singing