What I find the most interesting about Marble is the fact that the song that experiments/deviates the most from her sound or expands the palette the most on there is actually the bonus track. Maybe she was aware of how different it sounded and decided- no, this doesn't go, but is too good to throw away?
I like it when artists can make this kind of conscious decision, to be able to throw away or make such a strong (if not the best song on the album) into a bonus track. Takes real nerve and true focus on the final product to do something like that.
A rather smarmy but kinda true comment I read about this album from a last.fm user was 'I like this, it reminds me of Shiina Ringo without the product tie ins". I was holding it back from posting here because it's pretty harsh (and I'm ashamed I didn't come up with that myself :-p) but there you go.
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