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"'Love + Fear' are two 8 song collections that are part of an album set – my fourth full length release of music. Love is filled with a longing to enjoy life ('Handmade Heaven') and a desire for unity ('To Be Human'). Fear explores subjects that have been a lot harder for me to work through and understand, such as purpose ('Life is Strange'), insecurity in love ('Believe in Love' and 'Soft to be Strong'), and major shifts in our social conscience regarding the systematic misogyny and sexual abuse employed by powerful figures in the media ('Karma'). A companion to Love, these ideas cross to showcase and explore the polarising sides of human nature.

"The psychologist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross believed that 'There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear.' I can trace a lot of my behaviour back to these two emotions, particularly in relationships. When thinking about an album title to encapsulate the record, I played the 16 tracks and listened closely for sonic or lyrical themes that appeared to crop up again and again. I quickly sensed a very clear, concise divide of songs that came from a feeling of love and songs that stemmed from a feeling of fear. I also used this process to name my last album ‘Froot'. It's a simple way of decipher the main messages running through an album, as I often only recognise an album's main message once it's completed and I'm able to look at it from afar.

"My song writing has always been inspired and shaped by traditional storytelling and social shifts in our culture. As a society we have experienced such major social change in the past three years - politically, digitally and psychologically. ‘Love + Fear' reflects this." - Marina