Album Review

Martina Topley Bird – Carnies

• 13th Feb 2008

Working with Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton – the producer behind Gnarls Barkley – Martina Topley Bird will shortly release a new album entitled The Blue God.

The first single to be taken from The Blue God is Carnies, an infectious pop noir track boasting a bass and keys combo that create a mixed-up, yet deep melody. When you add in Martina’s soft, velvet vocals over the top and a layer of backing singers, it all comes together.

“I’m interested in using music as a way of exploring the emotional layers in life” Martina recently said, and if Carnies is anything to go by, this will become apparent throughout the new album.

This single is an erotic, exotic pop song dipped in aural and aesthetic pleasure.