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After kicking things off in '08 with the amazing Passion Pit, Neon Gold return in '09 with a flurry of releases in the year's early months, the debut single from Marina & The Diamonds leading the charge when it drops on Valentine's Day. Marina is some talent, melding the theatrically lavish vocal and orchestral flourishes of Kate Bush with the wonderful pop eccentricity of everyone from Cyndi Lauper to the Scissor Sisters. This is a really bold and ambitious record from someone so young, and one that you'll be hearing many times in the coming year. "Obsessions" is her dramatic masterwork, while "Mowgli's Road" is a high intensity, left field pop smash on the AA-side that establishes Marina as a unique talent in the UK's oversaturated singer-songwriter scene and a good bet for indie stardom in '09. Only 250 copies pressed in the US, these will go fast!