Nina Nastasia - Run to Ruin (2025 Reissue) Nina Nastasia

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.

Released in 2003 by Touch and Go Records (and out of print for almost two decades), Run to Ruin is the third album by Nina Nastasia. It was recorded by Steve Albini at Black Box studio in Noyant-la-Gravoyère, France and at Looking Glass studio in New York. Combined with the prodigious talents of her backing band and the sparse but lush arrangements of the instruments, the songs on Run to Ruin evoke haunting scenes of heartache, passion and a slightly seedy world. Nina's voice is at once delicate and intense, neither sweet nor harsh, it conveys an array of emotion moving between joy and sadness with just a moment's pause.
Nastasia is the rare artist who creates a new form from which others will copy. - Interview Magazine, 2002 -

These intimate hushes and lilts would be remarkable even as instrumentals... Yet it's Nastasia's voice - and the words that it sings - that really sucks the air out of the room. - Mojo, 2003 -