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- Summary: The third full-length release from Los Angeles singer-songwriter Marina Allen was produced by Chris Cohen.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Jun 17, 2024The spark she lit with her 2021 debut, Candlepower—and maintained on 2022’s Centrifics—has been harnessed into a deeply substantive, steady-burning flame on her latest work, while finding another fresh angle to approach the ever-evolving but sometimes overdone folk nostalgia.
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Jun 17, 2024On her new album, Eight Pointed Star, she pushes toward fresh spaces, twisting the traditional form into something familiar but not quite recognizable.
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MojoJun 20, 2024Placed in the modern setting and told in the universal language of folk music, her tales all ring true. [Aug 2024, p.83]
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UncutJun 24, 2024Gently irresistible throughout. [Aug 2024, p.31]
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Jun 17, 2024But for all the softness telegraphed in her music, Allen’s third album Eight Pointed Star is spiky and hard to pin down, its familiar environment camouflaging lyrics that can be vivid and fantastical.
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Jun 17, 2024Throughout Eight Pointed Star's various stylistic touchpoints, artistic allusions, and consistently lyrical melodies, Allen effectively merges the cerebral and the sentimental on an album that's ultimately about different kinds of love.