New York City Singer-Songwriter Nina Nastasia creates intimate, spectral music that evokes some lost, skewed take on Americana and that is often laced with haunting strains of viola, cello and bowed saw. She counts among her admirers the notoriously picky, celebrated producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies), who engineered her first two albums and who has vehemently sung her praises. Nastasia's debut, Dogs, was released in 1999 on the tiny indie Socialist Records, but was out of print by the end of 2000. For April 2002's the Blackened Air, she signed with Touch and Go who released both her follow-up recording, Run to Ruin, in 2003 (also recorded by Albini) and a reissue of Dogs in the summer of 2004. Though she kept the rest of her recording partners (which include Albini and drummer Jim White) the same, Nastasia moved to Fat Cat for 2006's On Leaving. ~ Erik Hage, All Music Guide