Insisting that she was born in Ancient Greece is Miss Marina Diamond’s way of making sure she won’t be passed off too quickly as ‘quirky’, that adjective we’ve come to dread of the media in their descriptions of female singer-songwriters that don’t fit commercial moulds.



Instead, Diamond’s just pure, downright insane. Her idols are Alexander McQueen, Brody Dalle and Mary Quant, she is obsessed with regality and royalty, she’s created a blog solely dedicated to finding free porn websites, she fantasises about Larry David, and she’s prone to making “overdramatic search requests on Google”, as she shares in one of her numerous blog entries: “Marina and the Diamonds" - Google alert! You have googled yourself 67 times today. Well done you self-obsessed loser”.




Her stuff is mainly tinkly piano based, new-wave inflected, with some weird-ass lyrics and vocal sound effects (think cackling, ooh-ing, aah-ing, stuttering) that are pretty all over the place. Comparisons to earthy songstresses Kate Bush and Tori Amos may be heady, but despite that, it's certainly not hard to love her like she’s the last woman on the planet.

Marina & The Diamonds - Obsessions

Keep your eyes peeled for her debut later this year.