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Jul 3, 2012Marina Diamandis rivals Katy Perry for catchy hooks, commands with the swagger of Gwen Stefani, and even comes close to the ethereal vocal exhilaration of Florence Welch.
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Jul 16, 2012Diamandis is trying to expose the artifice of big-box pop music by using its own voice, and despite the obvious trappings of the concept, she does a fairly respectable job.
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Apr 26, 2012Electra Heart manages to balance the ironic and the heartfelt, the quirky and the mainstream, the real and the fake with remarkable aplomb.
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UncutMay 2, 2012Whether she'll increase her fanbase on this second album by cloaking her naked ambition in the character of a self-obsessed bunny boiler called Electra Heart remains to be seen, but she's certainly given it everything. [May 2012, p.78]
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Apr 30, 2012Electra Heart is too professional to be truly terrible, but it's never clever enough to be more than merely toytown.
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Apr 30, 2012Electra Heart showcases glimpses of a clever, ballsy pop star.
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Apr 26, 2012She's somewhere beneath some half-hearted songs, a confused concept and someone else's image.
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May 4, 2012Whilst there's no getting past some of the duller and more unbearable material on this record ... if she'd made a record full of songs as unaffected as these four ["Lies," "Starring Role," "Power & Control," "Living Dead"], Electra Heart could be one of the year's most acclaimed pop albums.
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Apr 30, 2012Not sure-footed enough in its subversion, its artificiality feels fake rather than carefully plotted.
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Apr 26, 2012Electra Heart is a reasonably fun listen, and even if it falls short of its stratospheric ambition, still has more to say than many of Marina's contemporaries.
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Q MagazineJun 21, 2012Electra Heart sounds high on concept, low on songs. [Jun 2012, p.108]
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May 3, 2012On Electra Heart, Diamandis trades her cabaret post-punk vocal histrionics and thrift-store chic for an unconvincing Jacqueline Susann bombshell image and more overtly top-40-friendly sound.
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Apr 30, 2012These prom queen themes have had a more intriguing musical treatment from Lana del Rey.
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Apr 27, 2012Over brutish electro-stomps and fizzy pop trifles every bit as sickly as that suggests, Marina's shrill Violet Elizabeth Bott inflections proclaim her emptiness.
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May 1, 2012The problem here isn't Dr Luke smothering Marina's idiosyncracies so much as Marina/Electra herself crafting them into something paper-thin and paper-cut annoying.
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May 1, 2012'Electra heart' is an ingloriously languid statement of Marina's demise, the final stamp of disapproval on her flailing excuse of a musical career.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 612 out of 700
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Mixed: 41 out of 700
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Negative: 47 out of 700
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Jul 13, 2012
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Jan 28, 2016
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Aug 24, 2012