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"  Boy, those Brits sure love their crown jewels! While the rest of us have our eyes on the soaring price of gold, English music aficionados have their eyes set on diamonds\u2014Marina and the Diamonds to be exact. The latest in a string of edgy female pop acts like La Roux and Little Boots, 23-year-old Marina Diamandis has spent the summer touring the UK&amp;#039;s festival circuit, beguiling audiences\u2014or as she calls them, her Diamonds\u2014every step of the way with her small but eclectic repertoire. The handful of tracks she&amp;#039;s sung on stage and unofficially released online range from the bare acoustics and twinkling piano chords of &amp;quot;Simplify&amp;quot; (this is a girl that doesn&amp;#039;t mince words) to the Greek-flavored dance number &amp;quot;Girls,&amp;quot; where Marina disavows herself of any girly preoccupations, boasting, &amp;quot;I fall asleep when they speak / Of all the calories they eat! / All they say is / Nah nah nah nah-nah!&amp;quot; Critics might compare the singer-songwriter to Kate Nash because of her keyboards and quirky lyrics, but Marina is more Kate Bush than Nash. While so many pop stars channel the &amp;#039;80s with an ironic wink, Marina belts out new wave-inspired tracks like &amp;quot;I Am Not A Robot&amp;quot; (where she cries, &amp;quot;Guess what? / I am not a robot!&amp;quot;\u2014like we said, she doesn&amp;#039;t mince words) with all the unabashed dedication that Bush showed in the &amp;#039;70s and &amp;#039;80s. And today, Marina finally brings her signature brand of gusto stateside with the single &amp;quot;Mowgli&amp;#039;s Road,&amp;quot; where she croons and coos like a jungle bird and begins to stake her territory as pop&amp;#039;s next diamond in the rough. \u2014Nojan Aminosharei, Editorial Intern Marina And The Diamonds \u2013 Mowgli&amp;#039;s Road from AMY&amp;amp;amp;PINK on Vimeo. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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