Posts Tagged "CD"

Marina and the Diamonds – The Family Jewels

Posted by on Mar 12, 2010 in Music | 0 comments

Marina and the Diamonds – The Family Jewels

Last year, if you were in Britain, it was Little Boots and La Roux.  Female-fronted Electro-pop was hitting the forefront of British music with a vengeance and anyone with a casio and drum machine was being hailed as the next big thing.  And compared to the schlock the U.S. was turning out at the time, it’s no surprise why an entire country looked inward when it came to fostering and cultivating new talent.  A year later and things haven’t shifted much.  While the States are dealing with the Black Eyed Peas and those pesky Glee kids, Welsh singer-songwriter Marina Lambrini Diamandis is getting ready to unleash one helluva debut CD upon the British...

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Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You

Posted by on Feb 9, 2009 in Music | 1 comment

There was a point, several years ago, after a series of brief, failed attempts at friendships and relationships that I entered my mid twenties feeling as though I was the only person on Earth with any sanity.  My driving was the best, my choice in music peerless, my wardrobe everything it should be, as well as every other decision I would make in the timespan of a day.  I broke up with someone because he ate all of my food and lived in a dorm.  I stopped hanging out with people who shopped at Old Navy and carefully scrutinized everything about everyone.  I was a judgey judger. In a way, Lily Allen has this same problem.  Her first album was a thought provoking...

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