Don't like the other Marina and the Diamonds tracks too much (I'm missing a personal/emotional touch in the songwriting, but maybe that's just me), but this is a solid gold hit in my book. Much like her contemporaries, this isn't really very original stuff, just a lot of good elements mixed together: the intro with the tribal drums is a little bat for lashes, some vocal acrobacy, her voice (the 'oo-ooooh'-s) reminds me of someone, I'm guessing Siouxsie Sioux.
Anyway, killer chorus, killer smile. Finished right after Ellie Goulding on the BBC Ten for 2010 list, so you know what's up.
Here's an ultracatchy track with some falsetto vocals, very hard not to tap your feet along to this. In fact, the non-chorus melody part of this track sounds a lot like the Hairglow - Let it go track. It really does.
Another candidate for the top 10 singles of 2010, a song in the ever so popular Fleet Foxes/Band of Horses-department, a well crafted song with some original (the percussion!) touches.
Now for some creative musical 'borrowing':
Is it me or does the new Passion Pit single sound A LOT like Heartbeats by The Knife in the Rex the Dog remix?
And some lyrical borrowing, the new, more or less atypical, single 'White lights and black holes' by Placebo (no video available) borrows the line "A heart that hurts is a heart that works" -line from the grungy nineties track "Universal heartbeat" by Juliana Hatfield:
Been checking out some 'In treatment' episodes on the FoxLife channel lately. This series is for anyone that liked all the therapy sessions in the Soprano's or into psychology in general. Show is centered around a therapist, a series consist of 5 clients he sees on a weekly basis. Episode starts as the client enters and ends when he/she exits, so it's pretty static, but the dialogue is good so I'm digging this. Apparently, the main character goes to see his own therapist every once in a while, but I've yet to witness this. One of the characters is a young college girl that gets diagnosed with Lymphoma. I love Alison Pill's smile a lot:
