do you remember about a fortnight ago when i posted a video from marina and the diamonds and it was just part one? if not, you can read it here. anyway, we now have part two. it has marina don a blonde wig, grab a chainsaw and put on a mask. it’s all a bit natural born killers meets breakfast at tiffany’s. i like it. i still don’t get why it’s two parts though.

anybody who reads this blog will know that i very rarely read press releases and the such properly. i’m more of a skimmer. that’s why i have no idea why this is subtitled part one. i think i remember that it’s something about releasing a couple of tracks pre-new album and that they both link. or something. anyway, i love marina and i like this. it’s still no ‘obsessions‘ which is still so amazing it is one of these times when i’m tempted to actually use capital letters on here. i have once again resisted. i for one am looking forward to the new album and i hope that she doesn’t make the mistake of using only bad song on it as the lead single as she did with her debut. yes ‘hollywood’, i’m looking at you.

single review: marina and the diamonds. shampain. 4 oct 2010. 679 records

the future mrs sockformation (aka marina diamandis) is re-releasing ‘shampain’ next week or something. i’m sure it’s a re-release isn’t it? i know it was one of her first tracks i heard. while the track isn’t up there with ‘obsessions’ in the higher echelons of her output, it is a whole lot better than ‘hollywood’, the track that she seems to have been her biggest mainstream success. pictureplane has done a seriously dark remix of it too. you can have that for free right now in fact.

marina and the diamonds. shampain (pictureplane’s deep dolphin remix) (mp3)