Marina & The Diamonds – Electra Heart (Vinyl 2LP)

$62.00

Thundering, stellar electronic…magnetic, glacial vocals…whip-smart, womanly, lyrical wit…jokes as good as The Valley of The DollsMarina and The Diamonds’ 2012 second album, Electra Heart, was not so much a creative leap forward, but more like an Olympian pole-vault over a very high bar.

Two years on from her top 5 debut The Family Jewels, the self-styled avant-garde “D.I.Y artist” 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 was 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 (Lily Allen, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna, Stevie Nicks, Lykke Li). 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.

Electra Heart is a thematic riot, a British Eccentric, 21st Century concept caper where the album title represents a series of female archetypes, not so much an alter-ego as a beautifully-constructed prism, through which Marina projects a series of meticulously-realized female characters as a foil for telling her story, the one about mismatched lovers.

LP1

  1. Bubblegum Bitch
  2. Primadonna
  3. Lies
  4. Homewrecker
  5. Starring Role
  6. The State of Dreaming
  7. Power & Control
  8. Sex Yeah

LP2

  1. Teen Idle
  2. Valley of the Dolls
  3. Hypocrates
  4. How to Be a Heartbreaker
  5. Radioactive
  6. Fear and Loathing
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