Sally’s Alley: Marina & the Diamonds
We’d like to introduce you all to Marina & The Diamonds, a wonderful new act we stumbled across the other day. Marina & The Diamonds has everything going for her: a name you feel like you’ve already heard lots and lots about, a sound reminiscent of every quirky/feisty/melodic/indie songstress of the last couple years, and a handful of incredibly poppy and fantastic songs floating out and about. Marina & The Diamonds doesn’t really feature any diamonds, just Marina from Wales, (kind of like Florence & the Machine, who is really just Florence…) and we’re loving what we’re hearing. Check out her MySpace.
Her debut single, Obsessions, reminds us a lot of Regina Spektor; it’s a jazzy, thumping, ditty with lots of potential for head-bopping and a super chorus. We like Obsessions, but we’re absolutely luvin’ I Am Not A Robot, which you can check out below. If this girl plays her cards right, she’ll be big fo’ sho’.
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Marina and the Diamonds are the latest “and the” band, if indeed they are a band. Some of her/their songs are full-band performances even though on her MySpace, under “band members”, it simply says “me”. So we’re not sure who or what Marina’s Diamonds are, but then it took us quite a while to work out what Florence’s Machine was, let alone Joe Lean’s Jing Jang Jong.