Marissa Nadler – “Firecrackers” Video (Stereogum Premiere)

Marissa Nadler – “Firecrackers” Video (Stereogum Premiere)

Marissa Nadler’s latest album is called July, and wouldn’t you know it, July starts today. Just in time for Independence Day — and for the North American tour that begins next week — Nadler has delivered a video for “Firecrackers,” an eerie old-timey ballad that casts the fallout from a July 4 breakup in explosive terms. The heavily filtered clip, directed by Ryan Hamilton Walsh of Boston indie-rockers Hallelujah The Hills, features Nadler moving backwards through myriad activities including guitar-smashing and water-splashing. It feels like grainy old footage from around the time when a song like this would have been a pop standard. Watch it below.

July is out now on Sacred Bones/Bella Union. Nadler’s tour dates:

7/8 Washington, DC @ Rock N Roll Hotel
7/9 Durham, NC @ Pinhook
7/10 Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
7/12 New Orleans, LA @ The Beatnik
7/13 Austin, TX @ Holy Mountain
7/14 Dallas, TX @ City Tavern
7/15 Little Rock, AR @ White Water Tavern
7/16 Nashville, TN @ The Stone Fox
7/17 Champaign, IL @ Mike N Molly’s
7/18 Columbus, OH @ Rumba Café
7/19 Pittsburgh, PA @ Cattivo
7/20 New Haven, CT @ The Ballroom at Outer Space
8/1 New Salem, MA @ Northern Routes Festival
8/5 Stavanger, NO @ Folken
8/7 Göteberg, SE @ Way Out West
8/9 Helsinki, FI @ Flow Festival
8/30 Dorset, UK @ End of the Road
9/2 London, UK @ Dingwalls
9/3 Manchester, UK @ Soup Kitchen
9/4 Glasgow, UK @ Broadcast
9/5 Dublin, IE @ Button Factory
9/8 Dudingen, CH @ Bad Bonn
9/9 Zurich, CH @ El Lokal
9/10 Rorschach, CH @ Treppenhaus
9/11 Geneva, CH @ L’Usine
9/21 Tilburg, NL @ Incubate
9/22 Antwerp, BE @ Trix
9/23 Karlsruhe, DE @ Jubez
9/24 Köln, DE @ King Georg
9/26 Ravenna, IT @ Bronson
9/27 Parma, IT @ Palazzo del Governatore
9/28 Padova, IT @ Anfiteatro del Venda
9/30 Torino, IT @ The Rowing Sessions
10/3 Madrid, ES @ VillaManuela Festival
10/4 Porto, PT @ Amplifest
10/5 Lisbon, PT @ ZDB
10/7 Barcelona, ES @ La 2 de Apolo
10/8 Athens, GR @ Six Dogs

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