Marina & the Diamonds – Electra Heart (2012)

01 – Bubblegum Bitch
02 – Primadonna
03 – Lies
04 – Homewrecker
05 – Starring Role		yandex
06 – The State of Dreaming		yandex
07 – Power & Control
08 – Living Dead
09 – Teen Idle
10 – Valley of the Dolls
11 – Hypocrates
12 – Fear and Loathing
13 – Radioactive
14 – Sex Yeah
15 – Lonely Hearts Club
16 – Buy the Stars

Personnel
Marina Lambrini Diamandis – vocals
Peter Carr – electronic keyboard
Dan Gulino – bass
Jonathon Shone – keyboard
Sebastian Sternberg – drums

Off-kilter pop siren Marina Diamandis emerged out of Abergavenny via Greece in 2010. To say her second album is the subject of a big label push would be to understate the producerly firepower (Dr Luke, Greg Kurstin) flung at Electra Heart, an album concerned with love, identity, femininity and America. All that topspin allows the quirky Diamandis to make pumping glitz like Britney or Katy Perry while retaining some ironic distance, as she does on "Power & Control", a rotten track. Her Heart is not all as craven as that, but these prom queen themes have had a more intriguing musical treatment from Lana del Rey. --- Kitty Empire, guardian.co.uk

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