Band: Marina and the DiamondsSong: Obsessions (listen)
Album: Obsessions (EP) (buy)/The Family Jewels (album)
Occasionally, just occasionally, a song comes totally out of left field and slaps you in the face and goes “I AM AMAZING! LISTEN TO ME CONSTANTLY!” That’s what this song did for me. It was, however, an awful choice as my first song to blog about since my love for it is pretty much totally irrational. I think I can confidently say it is the best song about buying crackers ever, but then that doesn’t really seem like great enough praise somehow.
From the opening chords this song gets under your skin, it feels hypnotic. The gently pulsating piano, mixed with Marina’s lilting voice seems to reverberate in your head momentarily before she starts crashing the piano and brings you out of the dream-like start. I think this is part of the joy of the song, the sheer amount of emotion Marina gets into each syllable, the tenderness of little sweetheart juxtaposing the malice in creep is somehow made even more heartfelt.
The simplicity of this song makes me love it all the more. There’s not much to it musically below the surface and yet it still fails to get boring, I would put this down mostly to how fantastic the vocals are but I’d also like to think that every person listening to it will be enticed for different reasons.
This song is part of a wider love affair I’ve had with Marina and the Diamonds. Both Mowgli’s Road and Seventeen have all of Marina’s charm but Obsessions has that and then some. It’s like finding out that girl that you have liked for the past 6 months secretly plays Quake in her spare time, just managing to tip the balance from pretty fucking good to damn right amazing...yeh I’m not good with analogies. You get my point. For me this is just a beautiful piece of music, everything about it just makes me feel good inside and you really can’t ask much more of music.
Yours besottedly,
JoewMo
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