Marina Allen has announced her third album, Eight Pointed Star, which will be out June 7 via Fire. She made the album with producer Chris Cohen and it features contributions from Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy, Kacey Johansing and more.
The first single from the album is “Red Cloud,” and if this is any indication, Eight Pointed Star is a more modern-sounding record than Marina has made before, while still retaining her verdant, bucolic folk sound. “The imagery surrounding Nebraska has always been really vivid for me. My mom would tell me about how my grandma would ride a pony to school named Daisy. I guess it brought an awareness of how much the world has changed in such a short time, but it also really tripped me out as a kid,” Marina says. “We’d be watching The Wizard of Oz and I felt like Dorothy was my heritage. So much of your family narrative defines who you are, and so much of it isn’t true, or you hear it wrong, or you only pick up this one part, passed down by somebody else who only picked up one part. I wanted to play with that. I had all of these images swirling around me, with me at the center, and none of the sources were reliable.”
You can watch the “Red Cloud” video, directed by Wes Anderson collaborator Eliel Ford, below.
Marina will be on tour with Real Estate starting in April, including a show at NYC’s Webster Hall on 4/18. She’s also got a few headline shows lined up, including Brooklyn’s Union Pool on June 19. All dates are listed below.
Eight Pointed Star:
1. I’m the Same
2. Deep Fake
3. Red Cloud
4. Swinging Doors
5. Bad Eye Opal
6. Easy
7. Love Comes Back
8. Landlocked
9. Between Seasons
Marina Allen – 2024 Tour Dates:
Fri. April 5 – Montreal, QC @ Beanfield Theatre *
Sat. April 6 – Toronto, ON @ Masonic Temple Concert Hall *
Sun. April 7 – Detroit, MI @ El Club *
Mon. April 8 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium *
Wed. April 10 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line *
Thu. April 11 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall *
Fri. April 12 – Cleveland, OH @ The Roxy at Mahalls *
Sat. April 13 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Smalls *
Mon. April 15 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
Tue. April 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
Wed. April 17 – Boston, MA @ Royale Boston *
Thu. April 18 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall *
Fri. April 19 – Norwalk, CT @ District Music Hall *
Sat. April 20 – Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studio *
Thu. June 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Scribble
Wed. June 19 – New York, NY @ Union Pool
Fri. June 21 – London, UK @ The Slaughtered Lamb
Mon. June 24 – Stockholm, SE @ Cirkus ^
Tue. June 25 – Oslo, NO @ Sentrum Scene ^
Wed. June 26 – Copenhagen, DK @ DR Koncerthuset ^
Sat. June 29 – Nijmegen, NL @ De Vereeniging ^
Sun. June 30 – Groningen, NL @ SPOT / De Oosterpoort ^
* w Real Estate
^ w Ben Howard