Marina and the Diamonds releases her brand new album 'Electr a Heart' on 679/Atlantic on 30th April 2012. 'Electra Heart is preceded by the first single to be taken from the album 'Primadonna' which is released on 16th April.
\nMarina and The Diamonds second album\, 'Electra Hea rt'\, 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 cultiva ted Classic. Two years on from her top 5 debut 'The Family Jewels'\, the se lf-styled avant-garde "\;D.I.Y artist"\; has detonated her own expe rimental past and landed feet first in the future with 'Electra Heart'\, a stunningly ambitious\, seamless\, cohesive and confident sonic pulsar spinn ing between electro-pop euphoria and come-down melancholia.
\nThe al bum is produced by a cache of old school and A-List producers: Dr Luke (Kat y Perry) and Liam Howe (Sneaker Pimps) but mostly (9 out of 12 songs) Greg Kurstin (Lily Allen\, Kylie) and Rick Nowels (Madonna\, Stevie Nicks\, Lykk e Li). A hook-packed stunner with the sonic ambition of a one-woman Depeche Mode\, her onetime theatrical vocals now effortlessly soar between spectra l\, commanding and towering power-pop\, finding her vocal identity in an al bum about a loss of it.
\nThe songs\, mostly recorded in L.A in 2011 \, were written on-the-road through America in 2010\, teased into life on M arina's &oelig\;100 keyboard or sung into her lap-top in the back of her to ur-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 whatev er the truth is"\;. The song titles tell the story - from throbbing fir st single 'Primadonna' (set for release April 16th) to the robo-pop of 'Bub blegum Bitch' to the haughty spoken-word soliloquies of 'Homewrecker' - a f antasy roll-call of "\;fairly vengeful characters"\;. In 2012 she e mbarks on both a UK headline tour and as support to the mighty Coldplay\, j et-packed onto the mainstream stage on their colossal European Stadium Tour \, at the band's personal request.
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