FROOT, the third album by Marina And The Diamonds, was a very personal record. Every song on it was written and co-produced by Marina Diamandis. The album was also something of a reaction against its very different predecessor, 2012’s pop masterpiece Electra Heart. Diamandis stated that she was more confident, happier and more settled in her outlook when she made FROOT, enabling her to delve into complex lyrical topics and explore new musical styles. “I don’t have that thing where I felt so intense and tangled up about things, which is probably a good thing,” she said in 2015, at the time of the album’s release. “It means that you’re not as hung up on world domination. But on the positive side, it means you live quite a peaceful existence.”
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When did ‘FROOT’ by Marina And The Diamonds come out?
FROOT was released on 13 March 2015 – almost two years after Marina Diamandis announced that she was working on a third album. Alongside the 2013 announcement, Diamandis dropped the track E.V.O.L., which she described as a way to “close out” the Electra Heart era. E.V.O.L. was only released on Diamandis’ SoundCloud at the time; it has subsequently been made available on the Platinum Blonde tenth-anniversary version of Electra Heart.
As time went on, Diamandis spoke in more dramatic terms about her break with Electra Heart, specifically regarding the persona she adopted for that album. “I had to kill her, it was the end,” she said in 2015. “It was really fun while it lasted but those things are only meant to last a certain amount of time.” How did Diamandis kill her? “Oh, with sleeping pills, of course.”