Marina & The Diamonds!

not sure this is grabbing me yet. but optimistic for the rest.

guys

gonna stick my neck out and call this the most important british pop album since...fuck idk it's v v important tho

if the whole thing's got the scale & scope of the title track then my god are we in for it

i said that upthread

I'll need to hear more tracks before I buy the six different colors of "froots" wholesale.

I do like the title track MUCH MUCH more than I did the first time I played it, though.

Why does this come out 6 months from now when it already has a (presumably) finalized tracklist? And half the album will have been released by the time it actually comes out. An unusual strategy.

That's the iamamiwhoami model. Though how commercially viable that is remains to be seen (did "Kin" sell well once it eventually came out?).

the song is just so enormous and sad and epic

listened to her entire back catalogue on repeat tonight. growing convinced that she's the best current popstar. at least my personal favourite - the one i connect with the most. how many popstars write such brilliant hooks and lyrics basically all about depression & insecurity?

Froot just keeps improving for me on every listen (I really liked it first listen too :) )

aaand new track shared by popjustice
http://www.popjustice.com/songs/marina-the-diamonds-happy/

Oh my, as soon as the backing vocals came in, I was hooked.

"I'm a Ruin" was shared with people on the mailing list today. It's so good. My favorite of the FROOT tracks so far: http://youtu.be/H7z19xLjNXs

wow yeh sounds awesome
loving this pace

Why isn't she huge on ILX?

froot got 4 votes for the eoy poll :(
my #4 - still obsessed with it

Yeah, my #10. My question is, why the indifference?

she's a bit of a corny songwriter imo. newest song sounds ok though - the handclaps help

This is the first song of hers in a long while that reminds me why I originally liked her to begin with.

yeah "im a ruin" is really good. I loved the first album but I thought "Primadonna" was a pretty weak single and lost interest tbh.

Second album is really great imo, give it a try

"Froot" was #106 in the tracks poll & just missed my ballot. would have done better if it came out earlier imo

Immortal is gorgeous, love the slightly on the nose lyrics. Also she has got to be p much the most beautiful woman on the planet.

been listening to "i'm a ruin" on repeat, love the kate bushy heyaheys
video came out today too, giving me madonna-frozen vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDVC_pFMBMM

I love this song so much.

it sounds like something off Electra Heart

Nah, if anything it sounds like it would fit on The Family Jewels, but it's also kind of a new (okay, maybe not new, but more refined) look on her. Hope there's more of this on Froot.

i think because it has a similar line to one in 'power and control'

i think this might be the best song she's ever made

boring video tho

I'll always be a sucker for billowy clothes blowing in desert wind.

These lines kill me dead

And I've tried to say
Babe, I'm gonna ruin you if you let me stay
You still mean everything to me

The song seems to be doing really well on US iTunes which is kind of weird

I wonder where it's getting coverage. Not on any of the sites I read. And I can't imagine it's on radio playlists.

I wondered if it was on a Superbowl ad or something. She's got a large tumblr fanbase but I'd no idea it was this large.

she's a big hit on our local bowling alley music channels

Album apparently leaked a few days ago. I've been asleep at the wheel!

I didn't really have much interest in a new Marina album at the beginning of the year but after hearing I'm a Ruin I had to give it a go. The album is surprisingly great. It seems a little front loaded but I'm hoping the second half grows on me in time.

Apart from a few clumsy lyrics in "Can't Pin Me Down," I think it might be her strongest lp from beginning to end.

Easily my favourite so far. I didn't rate the second album at all.

I'm not feeling these new ones much yet. They mostly sound the same to me.

oh this gets really good in the second half

or maybe I was mostly thinking of the songs 'Gold' and 'Better Than That'

She's written the melody in 'Forget' at least twice before though (it feels)

the album is kinda boring to me but i still love "i'm a ruin"

Wonder if it's her formula that Track 9 on every album is more or less the best & darkest track, Track 2 the monster pop single and Track 12 the big sad late-album epic

awesomely consistent album imo
out of the tracks i hadn't heard already, really enjoying 'gold' and 'blue'
'froot' into 'i'm a ruin' is just such a strong run

A lot of people have pointed out the Teen Idle/Forget link:
https://soundcloud.com/leakedpop2/marina-the-diamonds-forget-teen-idle

I guess I'm disappointed with this album overall. I was one of the excited nerds who pre-ordered for my froot of the month (I will commend her on this strategy, if she'd just put up a stream I probably wouldn't have bought the thing) and after getting my hopes raised real, real, high with "Happy" and "Froot" what finally arrived was an AOR break-up record with characteristically drab videos, not mad Nintendo futurepop and gospel vibe ballads. It's probably her most consistent album but I don't see myself returning to it like I do her debut and some tracks of Electra Heart.

Also, how do people like "Gold". Did you guys also like "Florida Kilos" or what