{Marina and the Diamonds play at the Crocodile on Monday, September 13 with Young the Giant. 21+, 8pm doors, $13ADV.}
Marina Diamandis is the latest in a long line of ultra-cool female pop stars to come from the UK, following Lily Allen, Kate Nash, Little Boots, Ellie Goulding, Florence (and the Machine) Welch and Elly Jackson of La Roux, amongst others (lest I be accused of omitting Cheryl Cole). Taking the stage name Marina and the Diamonds, her songs are catchy and hold up just as well as those of her aforementioned peers.
The Family Jewels was her first proper LP and it made its debut domestically earlier in the summer and it’s yielded several singles that any pop lover would find difficult to get out of your head, especially “Hollywood,” “I am not a Robot,” “Oh No!” and the newest single, “Shampain”. Those singles are mostly piano-based numbers that are exuding such great hooks that they sound like they belong on the radio.
“Hollywood” is my favorite song of hers, which iTunes says I’ve listened to more than anything anything else on my iPod, or as the NME (who have never been reserved about using hyperbole) put it, it’s “twiddled to perfection by 5ive/Kylie/Spice Girls supremo Biff Stannard. Raining down on the ears like an explosion of sonic confetti, it boasts a chorus so killer it should probably be investigated by the police.”
After a week since Bumbershoot consumed most of my life and this will be the first time since I’ll be anxious to enter a rock club again for what I think is the first can’t miss show of the fall.
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