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Mar 30, 2015Blending the light touch of her backing band with selectively applied electronic elements, Marina gives a more refined take on songs that in her past might have been layered in obtrusive electropop production or overwhelming string arrangements.
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Mar 13, 2015The change highlights her brightest facet--that limber voice, which swings from voluptuous alto to fluttering soprano in one swoop. But there’s good fun in Froot, too.
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Mar 20, 2015It’s one of the most complex pop albums of recent years, and like any great steamroller mind, she can’t quite contain herself.
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Apr 20, 2015After closing the door on her Electra Heart era, Marina Diamandis knew she needed to reinvent her persona. Froot achieves just that, adeptly flirting with chart sugar on the title track and “Better Than That” but more often than not, digging her heels into raw, nail-biting reality.
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Apr 13, 2015With the pop landscape becoming increasingly homogeneous, more artists need to experiment, and the variety displayed across Froot's 12 tracks is impressive.
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Q MagazineApr 1, 2015It's the explosion in Diamandis's songwriting that's most noticeable here. [May 2015, p.107]
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Mar 23, 2015Ultimately, with Froot, Diamandis has crafted an arch, swaggeringly impressive album that balances its pop sweetness with a deep-rooted maturity.
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Mar 16, 2015FROOT finds her at her most accomplished and intriguing.
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Mar 16, 2015Only the uncharacteristically bitter Better Than That feels out of place on a set steeped in introspection.
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Apr 17, 2015She is an artist who knows who she is, and Froot luxuriates in the confidence that we do, too, relaxing in the space and power that Diamandis has claimed.
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Mar 26, 2015FROOT is her strongest album to date.
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UncutMar 30, 2015Froot is another big, unabashed pop album astutely balanced with sufficient melancholy and restraint to stop it from all getting too Katy Perry. [May 2015, p.77]
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May 4, 2015In the end, Diamandis can't quite shape Froot into a coherent vision.
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Apr 8, 2015Flawed as it may be at times, Froot emerges as Diamandis’ strongest album to date, mainly because it’s the first one that strongly stamps her own personality on proceedings.
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Apr 3, 2015Diamandis is using her music to discover who she really is. That said, by the end of Froot, we're still none the wiser.
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Mar 19, 2015Marina’s whooping, swooping mannerisms add to the sense of dislocation--but if you allow yourself to be swept into her world, it’s an intriguing place.
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Mar 17, 2015Grand statements about humanity in “Savages” and “Immortal” fall flat, and moments like the three-syllable “di-a-mond” in “Solitaire” mistake quirk for personality. But a few slices of FROOT are exactly ripe enough.
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Apr 3, 2015Jumping from intense outpours to cheeky pop, it’s an album of songs meant to be cherry-picked and passed on, not listened to as a whole.
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Mar 23, 2015This is Diamandis’ break-up album in more ways than the romantic sense. She also severs ties with popular expectation, and the end result is regressive rather than revolutionary.
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Positive: 827 out of 910
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Mixed: 18 out of 910
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Negative: 65 out of 910
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