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Marina Allen

Candlepower

lp + download - £17.99 | Buy
Marina Allen glides on angelic highs, surfing the husky deep; she is one of the great new voices of her generation.
Eight Pointed Star
  1. I'm the Same
  2. Deep Fake
  3. Red Cloud
  4. Swinging Doors
  5. Bad Eye Opal
  6. Easy
  7. Love Comes Back
  8. Landlocked
  9. Between Seasons

Marina Allen

Eight Pointed Star

FIRE
  • limited black lp + *signed* print + download

    Released: 7th Jun 2024

    £22.99
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  • black lp + download

    Released: 7th Jun 2024

    £22.99
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  • cd

    Released: 7th Jun 2024

    £12.99
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The third album of powerfully vivid songwriting from Marina Allen; beautifully orchestrated, highly melodic and delivered with unrivalled lyrical perspective.

Across two acclaimed records, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has ripened a rare harvest, but her third studio album is an arrival home. Taking fragments and stories from Marina’s past, 'Eight-Pointed Star' deftly weaves together a new future, in what feels for all the world like a glittering, clear-eyed modern classic of alternative folk and Americana. Ineffable and timeless, this collection of songs holds a curiosity that’s as open to you as you are to them.

Compared to the soaring and swelling compositions of Allen’s second album, 'Centrifics', or the innocent tranquillity of 'Candlepower', the world of 'Eight Pointed Star' is more deeply addressing and open-armed. It favours a type of soul-searching that doesn’t dwell in complications, and is open to answers. Rolling guitars rise and fall with the canyons and dust is kicked-up from the red scarred earth. Allen’s vocals pure and crystalline whilst the instrumentation is rich and bursting with brightness. You can hear contentment radiating from the music, with Chris Cohen’s production offering a full-band affair.

For fans of Aldous Harding, Fiona Apple and Waxahatchee