Electra Heart
Marina and the Diamonds second album, 'Electra Heart', is not so much a creative leap forward, more an olympian pole-vault over the bar of talented-newcomer into the global amphitheatre of a cultivated classic. Two years on from her top 5 debut 'The Family Jewels', the self-styled avant-garde 'DIY Artist' has detonated her own experimental past and landed feet first in the future with 'Electra Heart', a stunningly ambitious, seamless, cohesive and confident sonic pulsar spinning between electro-pop euphoria and come-down melancholia. The album is produced by a cache of old school and a-list producers: Dr Luke (Katy Perry) and Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) but mostly (9 out of 12 songs) Greg Kurstin (lLly Allen, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Lykke lL). a hook-packed stunner with the sonic ambition of a one-woman depeche mode, her onetime theatrical vocals now effortlessly soar between spectral, commanding and towering power-pop, finding her vocal identity in an album about a loss of it. The songs, mostly recorded in LA in 2011, were written on-the-road through america in 2010, teased into life on Marina's 100 keyboard or sung into her lap-top in the back of her tour-bus bedroom, 'watching the corn fields flying by and making sense of the message that american culture employs; that you can be anyone and do anything, go anywhere and lose yourself- start afresh and forget whatever the truth is'. the song titles tell the story - from throbbing first single 'Primadonna' to the robo-pop of 'Bubblegum Bitch' to the haughty spoken-word soliloquies of 'Homewrecker' - a fantasy roll-call of 'Fairly Vengeful Characters'.LP - Housed in Gatefold Sleeve.
Electra Heart
Marina and the Diamonds second album, 'Electra Heart', is not so much a creative leap forward, more an olympian pole-vault over the bar of talented-newcomer into the global amphitheatre of a cultivated classic. Two years on from her top 5 debut 'The Family Jewels', the self-styled avant-garde 'DIY Artist' has detonated her own experimental past and landed feet first in the future with 'Electra Heart', a stunningly ambitious, seamless, cohesive and confident sonic pulsar spinning between electro-pop euphoria and come-down melancholia. The album is produced by a cache of old school and a-list producers: Dr Luke (Katy Perry) and Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) but mostly (9 out of 12 songs) Greg Kurstin (lLly Allen, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Lykke lL). a hook-packed stunner with the sonic ambition of a one-woman depeche mode, her onetime theatrical vocals now effortlessly soar between spectral, commanding and towering power-pop, finding her vocal identity in an album about a loss of it. The songs, mostly recorded in LA in 2011, were written on-the-road through america in 2010, teased into life on Marina's 100 keyboard or sung into her lap-top in the back of her tour-bus bedroom, 'watching the corn fields flying by and making sense of the message that american culture employs; that you can be anyone and do anything, go anywhere and lose yourself- start afresh and forget whatever the truth is'. the song titles tell the story - from throbbing first single 'Primadonna' to the robo-pop of 'Bubblegum Bitch' to the haughty spoken-word soliloquies of 'Homewrecker' - a fantasy roll-call of 'Fairly Vengeful Characters'.LP - Housed in Gatefold Sleeve.
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Marina and the Diamonds second album, 'Electra Heart', is not so much a creative leap forward, more an olympian pole-vault over the bar of talented-newcomer into the global amphitheatre of a cultivated classic. Two years on from her top 5 debut 'The Family Jewels', the self-styled avant-garde 'DIY Artist' has detonated her own experimental past and landed feet first in the future with 'Electra Heart', a stunningly ambitious, seamless, cohesive and confident sonic pulsar spinning between electro-pop euphoria and come-down melancholia. The album is produced by a cache of old school and a-list producers: Dr Luke (Katy Perry) and Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) but mostly (9 out of 12 songs) Greg Kurstin (lLly Allen, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Lykke lL). a hook-packed stunner with the sonic ambition of a one-woman depeche mode, her onetime theatrical vocals now effortlessly soar between spectral, commanding and towering power-pop, finding her vocal identity in an album about a loss of it. The songs, mostly recorded in LA in 2011, were written on-the-road through america in 2010, teased into life on Marina's 100 keyboard or sung into her lap-top in the back of her tour-bus bedroom, 'watching the corn fields flying by and making sense of the message that american culture employs; that you can be anyone and do anything, go anywhere and lose yourself- start afresh and forget whatever the truth is'. the song titles tell the story - from throbbing first single 'Primadonna' to the robo-pop of 'Bubblegum Bitch' to the haughty spoken-word soliloquies of 'Homewrecker' - a fantasy roll-call of 'Fairly Vengeful Characters'.LP - Housed in Gatefold Sleeve.
