I've been saving all my summers for you...Like fro-o-o-ot...
Hello all! It's time to recommend one of the best pop records of the past decade. If one pop star knows how to make something unique, it's MARINA. her third album Froot marks a change in direction following the more maximalist Electra Heart. MARINA pushed away the producers and executives, closed the doors, and wrote a really concise, meaningful album. Incorporating classic funk, rock, and disco with an atmospheric contemporary production, Froot paints splotches of color against a black background. And those colors sparkle. While it's hard to beat her bombastic performance on The Family Jewels, Froot may just have MARINA's most beautiful vocals. While she can carry fuller tracks, the minimalism on this release really lets her voice step to the foreground. My favorite tracks include Solitaire (a track I personally connect with), conscious and powerful Savages, rocking Forget, and heart-melting I'm a Ruin (my favorite version of which being the acoustic session). Perhaps it's a basic choice, but my #1 song has to be Froot itself. The song is just so unique and good; the wild bassline, the ethereal synthesizers, the deliciously haunting vocals, the complex lyrics? And the movement of the arrangement is inspirational. The lyrics are about patiently waiting to finally be ready for love, and what better way to reflect that than to make the listener wait almost two minutes and five sections into the song for the chorus? If I've succeeded in piquing your interested, go give Froot a listen!
(If you choose to listen on YouTube, I highly recommend listening to the full arrangement. MARINA music videos are great, but the chopped up arrangements are never as awesome as the real tracks! You can listen to the full arrangement of Froot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_D4M...) (And you can listen to the incredible acoustic version of I'm a Ruin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCt1_...)
Alex Kunce
I've been saving all my summers for you...Like fro-o-o-ot...
Hello all! It's time to recommend one of the best pop records of the past decade. If one pop star knows how to make something unique, it's MARINA. her third album Froot marks a change in direction following the more maximalist Electra Heart. MARINA pushed away the producers and executives, closed the doors, and wrote a really concise, meaningful album. Incorporating classic funk, rock, and disco with an atmospheric contemporary production, Froot paints splotches of color against a black background. And those colors sparkle. While it's hard to beat her bombastic performance on The Family Jewels, Froot may just have MARINA's most beautiful vocals. While she can carry fuller tracks, the minimalism on this release really lets her voice step to the foreground. My favorite tracks include Solitaire (a track I personally connect with), conscious and powerful Savages, rocking Forget, and heart-melting I'm a Ruin (my favorite version of which being the acoustic session). Perhaps it's a basic choice, but my #1 song has to be Froot itself. The song is just so unique and good; the wild bassline, the ethereal synthesizers, the deliciously haunting vocals, the complex lyrics? And the movement of the arrangement is inspirational. The lyrics are about patiently waiting to finally be ready for love, and what better way to reflect that than to make the listener wait almost two minutes and five sections into the song for the chorus? If I've succeeded in piquing your interested, go give Froot a listen!
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(If you choose to listen on YouTube, I highly recommend listening to the full arrangement. MARINA music videos are great, but the chopped up arrangements are never as awesome as the real tracks! You can listen to the full arrangement of Froot here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_D4M...)
(And you can listen to the incredible acoustic version of I'm a Ruin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCt1_...)
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