Writing songs in the spirit of what Greil Marcus termed, 'The Old, Weird America', Nathan Xander is an Americana/folk singer specializing in hushed songs of tension and regret. With lyrics often recalling the spidery narratives of Southern-Gothic writers such as Flannery O'Connor and the offbeat movies of the Cohen Brothers, Xander's unorthodox aesthetic mix of the rootsy and the surreal marks a sound undeniably his own.