New Marissa Nadler Video - "Famous Blue Raincoat"

We haven't heard from Marissa Nadler since her "Mexican Summer" video. Definitely a beautiful song, but that's sort of the wrong season for her, so this Greg Eggebeen-directed clip for Songs III: Bird on the Water's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Famous Blue Raincoat" arrives at the right time: early October breezes, Halloween not far away. It's also the start of the school year, so might as well bring up "Famous Blue Raincoat"'s use of amphibrachs, a trisyllabic metrical foot consisting of a long syllable between two short syllables, employed in Latin/Greek poetry (and Dr. Seuss), etc. Note the first verse, class, or ignore all of that and instead pay attention to the haunting split-screen. Happy holidays.

A video worth watching more than twice. (Also, you can maybe hear the rise/fall more succinctly in Cohen's version.)

Songs III: Bird on the Water is out via Kemado. Marissa's started a blog. She's also playing some shows:

10/24 - Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg #
10/26 - Northampton, MA @ Pearl Street Clubroom $
11/21 - Boston, MA @ Brainwaves Festival

# w/ Dungen and TK Webb
$ w/ Dungen and Headdress

Posted at 11:08 AM by brandon in Video
Tags: Leonard Cohen | Marissa Nadler

3 Comments

What a D-bag. No one should cover Leonard Cohen. Leave the perfection alone

Posted by: Billy Side at 10/02/08 1:13 PM  | Reply
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I can't think of a more bro-tastic phrase to use than 'D-bag' when it's being applied to a cover of a folk song. The WIT. And yeah, you're so right, NO ONE should cover Cohen. Better throw that Jeff Buckley record away for good measure.

Posted by: Snaggletooth at 10/02/08 5:18 PM  | Reply
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Ha. Who says bro-tastic. What a d-bag.

Posted by: Billy Side at 10/03/08 9:04 AM  | Reply
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