Christ, fellow emeralds! It’s a new song from Marina and The Diamonds! This is Fear and Loathing, Part 1 of an introduction to Electra Heart, an alter-ego which Marina says “epitomises and embodies the lies, illusions and death of American ideologies involved in the corruption of self”. Mmm, conceptual. Part 2 comes next Monday. Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I adore Ms. Diamandis, because she’s unashamedly pop and unashamedly intellectual, honest, raw and vulnerable, like shards of sugar glass. Fear and Loathing is rather pretty, but I have a feeling it will work best in context. I reserve full hyperventilating, gushing judgement till then.