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- Summary: The fourth full-length album by Marina Diamand is the first with her shortened name (previously under Marina And The Diamonds) features a collaboration with Clean Bandit and Luis Fonsi.
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- Record Label: Atlantic
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 3 out of 8
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Mixed: 5 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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May 2, 2019As the first offering of a new stage in her career, Love + Fear not only reveals its creator as newly hopeful, but it also gives hope that future efforts might be carved in a similar fashion. Marina's Electra heart still beats, it's just pumping smoother and with a confidence born from a renewed and mature perspective.
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Apr 29, 2019On LOVE + FEAR, Marina shoots for stripped-bare big pop, and for the most part, she achieves it, but various clichéd lyrics occasionally stop her sincerity in its tracks.
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Apr 29, 2019Love is where the album falls short of delivering--containing most of the pre-release singles and the mainstream Clean Bandit collaboration ‘Baby’--there are few moments where it feels like the signature Marina. ... The Fear half of the album is riddled with concern and confusion about life itself and the darker emotions that come with it. Opener ‘Believe In Love’ sits near the top of Marina’s most captivating songs.
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Apr 29, 2019‘True’ is the only real misstep on the record’s first half: a preachy self-love anthem that feels like it might’ve come together without Marina thinking how the lyrics sound when sang out loud, but it’s quickly passed over when ‘To Be Human’ arrives.
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Apr 29, 2019Love is a pleasant although occasionally overly earnest capsule collection of pop sounds where Diamantis proves herself to be the master of the “brief pause... and gentle drop” technique. ... Her voice skitters across songs with a frostiness reminiscent of Madonna’s Ray of Light era, and sometimes it feels like a lecture being delivered into the mirror: everyone’s just like you, no one’s happy, enjoy your life.
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Apr 29, 2019That Marina--the lyricist who wasn’t afraid to detail the taste of toothpaste on a lover’s tongue, the vocalist who wasn’t afraid to punctuate a sentence with a feral shriek--has gone missing. The temptation of safe is undeniable, but mononyms are earned by embracing risk.
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Q MagazineMay 14, 2019There are suggestions of better directions not taken. [Jul 2019, p.113]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 77 out of 96
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Mixed: 11 out of 96
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Negative: 8 out of 96
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Sep 3, 2019
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Apr 30, 2019Existencialismo além de love and fear, nunca falhou através de seus conceitos.
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Jun 25, 2021I think this album is underrated. Not her best, sure, but still very good. “Soft to be strong” is a very important song for me.
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Apr 30, 2019This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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Oct 23, 2021This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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