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Nina Nastasia's previous album, The Blackened Air, quietly established her as a cult icon, thanks to its enthralling, intimate blend of southern gothic influences, country, and folk. With Run to Ruin, her third full-length release, Nastasia seems to recoil from the attention, filling the disc with dense, dark songs that are mostly fixated on unsavory subjects like drug abuse and toxic love. In contrast, Gillian Welch's stark Americana seems sunny. Yet the more Nastasia withdraws into her own world, the more attractive her music becomes. The backstabbers, sharp cliffs, and ambulances that litter unsettling songs like "You Her and Me" and "Superstar" prove that human condition at its worst brings out the singer at her best. --Aidin Vaziri