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Silver-throated chanteuse Marissa Nadler is prone to sing a cover or two, whether it's Radiohead's "No Surprises" or something from the oeuvre of Leonard Cohen, like "Famous Blue Raincoats" (on her latest album Songs III: Bird on the Water) or "Chelsea Hotel #2" (see above).

Marissa Nadler makes weird and lovely folk-twinged shoegazey songs with one foot well in the realm of traditional English balladry. But before you get scared off, take a gander at the vid above, a performance of "Diamond Hearts," the first track off her latest album Songs III: Bird on the Water. What grabs you from the get-go is her siren's voice, heavy in echo and reverb and strongly reminiscent of Hope Sandoval (Mazzy Star). That remarkable set of pipes ain't all Marissa's got going for her. Over time, she's refined and expanded her sound to incorporate mandolin, cellos, various percussion, electric guitars, and synths. Her atmospheric, melancholy songs led Pitchfork to call Songs III: Bird on the Water "one of the most focused and engaging singer-songwriter releases so far this year."

A friend of ours at Chop Suey Saturday night told us the last time The Clientele [myspace] played Chop Suey all of 16 people showed up. Clearly the band is doing something right, because the place was bustling this time around. (Amazon's only got two copies of their last album left in stock at the moment.)

Seattlest doesn't find this picture funny at all. We know firsthand how hard those awkward years of high school can be. The pimples, the pants that didn't fit right, the God-awful hours spent wishing Heather Cannon would think of us as more than that creepy guy staring at her. If you think this picture is funny, well, you're a bad person.