Marina Allen will release new album ‘Eight Pointed Star’ on June 7th.
The LA songwriter caught attention with two magnificent albums, 2021’s ‘Candlepower’ and 2022’s ‘Centrifics’. Taking time over her next step, Marina Allen blends her roots with fresh ideas on her incoming LP.
Out on June 7th, ‘Eight Pointed Star’ refers to the points of a compass, and the process of exploring who you are – and where you’re going.
New single ‘Red Cloud’ describes the Nebraskan prairies, imagery drawn from her mother’s childhood. The song is named after the small town and birthplace of writer Willa Cather, and its dulcet tones and dreamy sonics undulate across golden fields of the imagination.
Director Eliel Ford steers the video, shot on 35mm film in Northern California. Marina comments…
The imagery surrounding Nebraska has always been really vivid for me. My mom would tell me about how my grandma would ride a pony to school named Daisy. I guess it brought an awareness of how much the world has changed in such a short time, but it also really tripped me out as a kid. We’d be watching The Wizard of Oz and I felt like Dorothy was my heritage.
So much of your family narrative defines who you are, and so much of it isn’t true, or you hear it wrong, or you only pick up this one part, passed down by somebody else who only picked up one part. I wanted to play with that. I had all of these images swirling around me, with me at the center, and none of the sources were reliable.
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Juliana Giraffe & Nicola Giraffe
