Efren’s LP Pick for 2015, Froot

So obviously the year isn’t quite over, but I’m calling it anyway. Marina And The Diamonds latest LP, Froot, is my pick for LP of the year.

Froot, as in fruit but in a creative different Roxy Cool kind of way, has made more than an impression on me. It’s as if she came out with this LP just for me. Every single song on Froot has a great deal of various kinds of mimics and or a belief in my everyday lifestyle, so it seems. In fact you might say it moves me in more than a danceable way with upbeat lyrics such as, “I’m not afraid of God, I’m afraid of man,” “But without you, I’m afraid of falling,” and “You can do better then.” As a professional DJ (The Quake) for over 25 years, I’ve acquired a different taste of music on a personal level. In other words it’s different from the same music I generally play every weekend that would include your top 40 in all genres as well as some of the old classic requests such as Sweet Home Alabama. And just for the record, I’ve never been to Alabama. Most of my friends would say that I walk to the beat of my own drum and that’s cool. It’s been that way since as long as I can remember and I’m OK with that. Just the same, it’s refreshing to know that I’m not really alone here when it comes to a European sound like Marina And The Diamonds’ music.

Just recently, another one of her shows was added at The Fox Theater in Oakland since the first one sold out in record time. Her latest LP “Froot” is amazing. It has 12 tracks that move me in a eclectic kind of loving way. Her new LP Froot has my name all over it as if I was one of her Diamonds. Marina is chic, lovely with a romantic voice in all levels and if you liked Kate Bush’s LP, “The Dreaming,” in the 80’s you will find something similar to that love in a deeper sense with Froot. I’d like to invite you to try something different and far from the norm in music or what our traditional radio stations are playing. Simply try the taste of her Marina’s “Froot.”