Around the end of 2021, Marina Diamandis found herself at something of a crossroads. The Welsh-born, LA-based musician had recently released her fifth album and, in doing so, completed the contract she’d signed with Atlantic Records as a 21-year-old ingenue doing the rounds of the London indie-pop circuit. The following decade of trudging through the endless cycle of recording, releasing, promoting, and touring had left Diamandis with unresolved chronic health issues. Finally feeling that she had a moment to breathe, she took some time off to get herself well again.

“I was consuming a lot of music and media and books that felt uplifting, and positive, and supportive. It’s kind of difficult to explain, because it doesn’t sound very fun,” Diamandis says from her home in Los Angeles. “But

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