![]() ‘True’ shimmers with possibility, while ‘To Be Human’ might glance at some of the more difficult aspects of modern life, but finds unity in confusion. Packing most of the pre-release offerings, as well as recent Clean Bandit team-up ‘Baby’, it’s an assertively sugar-sweet collection. ![]() ‘Love’, on the other hand, is where the big moments dwell. Even in its slowest moments, there’s a swell of defiance. ‘No More Suckers’ is more of a fightback bop than a defeated lament, while ‘Soft To Be Strong’ revels in Marina’s sharp as glass falsetto. Yes, the second half does deal with more weighty emotion, but musically it never descends into the murky darkness, every difficult moment of introspection refusing to dwell. ![]() While the obvious path would lead to a juxtaposition of light and shade, Marina is smarter than that. Personas and protective shields cast aside, ‘Love + Fear’ is one of the best in the game at her most open and honest.Ī two-part album – ‘Love’ and, quite obviously ‘Fear’ – there’s a crystal clarity to Marina two-or-three-or-possibly- four-point-oh. Shedding her ‘and the Diamonds’ postfix, Marina is blossoming into the perfect present-day pop icon. While she’s hardly a shrinking flower in the ‘profile’ stakes, it’s still far from enough.īut not this time. ![]() Three albums of interesting, personality-focused pop music that always had Big Ideas behind them should, in any right-thinking universe, have made her a household name. Or if we do, we certainly do not appreciate her enough. We – collectively, as a planet – don’t deserve Marina.
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