Marina review – pom-poms, lightsabers and striking pop showtunes
Royal Albert Hall, London
Despite singing to backing tracks, the Greek-Welsh conceptualist creates a vivid show out of her stylised electropop
The family is out for Marina Diamandis tonight – not just the blood relatives, a dozen of whom have turned out to cheer on pop’s presiding Greek-Welsh conceptualist, but also the fan family. They’ve kept faith with the singer during a three-year period of regrouping that culminated in dropping the “and the Diamonds” suffix – it was constricting, tying her to a past in which she constructed a new persona for each record, such as the chilly American antihero of the Electra Heart album. Thus, for the new Love + Fear, she’s simply Marina.
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