The Wrath of the Clouds is the five song EP from Marissa Nadler featuring two covers and three previously unreleased tracks written during the same period as her critically lauded album from 2021, The Path of the Clouds. This period was a fruitful and prolific time for Nadler and after mixing and mastering last years’ full length that featured guest appearances from Emma Ruth Rundle, Mary Lattimore, and Amber Webber to name a few, Nadler rediscovered a few songs she had written during this time and said it felt like “like uncovering lost gems that I had forgotten about.” She thought they fit together sonically and conceptually with the two cover songs she had been eagerly waiting to record so she went back to the studio and the result is a beautiful release as rich and essential as its predecessor.

The three original tracks on the album all swim in similar thematic waters to her last release. The intoxicating “Guns on the Sundeck” is a stunning nearly seven-minute-long epic written from the point of view of the said to be haunted Queen Mary ship. Throughout the song, “she” details the horrors and the highlights of her years on land and sea. “All the Eclipses” sees the return of Black Mountain’s Amber Webber as a featured guest and the two use the song’s waltzing tempo to lull you under their spell. Nadler says the lyrics were written to feel “like walking around the aftermath of a fire, after the embers burn out. It's looking at the sky and seeing what remains…” which is captured perfectly in the ethereal voices swirling around you while a deep guitar dirge burns in the center. In “Some Secret Existence” she layers her voice atop sparse but tasteful guitar work and illustrates her ability to build a dense and beautiful world with not much more than her harmonies.