I was banned when it leaked, so I'll share my opinions about the album now.
I'm very happy with a lot of things in this album and not so much about the rest. It's a rare case when the album has amazing, flawless tracks and if the track isn't flawless she is really bad. I don't know if i'm expressing myself correctly, but this album has a lot of high moments but there are also very low moments on the same number, so I don't know how to judge it completely.
Let me start by saying that Immortal is the best song on Marina's career, that's not easy to say considering the amount of good music she has. 'Froot', 'Happy', 'I'm a Ruin' are also three of the best songs she ever released and they really carry the album because they are SO good. 'Forget' and 'Savages' are also amazing songs that I really enjoyed. So those six songs are half of the album
The other half is the problem. These other (six) songs contain the worst material Marina released. 'Blue' and 'Gold' are really something else, I don't get how these two awful songs got into this album especially considering the amount of really good music in it. These are her worst songs for me. 'Can't Pin Me Down', 'Solitaire', 'Weeds' and 'Better than That' are also bad songs that lack melody, good lyrics and overall production. I'm very disappointed at her giving the BEST on half of the album and completely ignoring the rest. If I was her, I would've worked harder because she is able to so much more. I'll enjoy those six songs as the flawless tracks they are but I'll never enjoy this album as a whole.
I can't even say this is her ''worst album'' because that would be a disrespect to those six songs. I'll buy the album and support her, but I am very frustrated. As a whole, this album is inferior to Electra and Jewels. Does anyone feel the same?
Is this a joke about how they put up the ugly unedited, grainy cover first before updating it with the one on the left? So the one on the right is the next step?
This album has finally grown on me the last few days, thank god. I like every track now apart from Solitaire (does anyone else notice the way she pronounces her t's abit like d's?) & Weeds (it's actually quite good apart from that awful awful bridge, lord).
I'm A Ruin is the standout for me, along with Froot. Forget has came up out of nowhere aswell.