Marina Allen

Taking fragments and stories from Marina’s past, Eight Pointed Star welcomes an assembly of images, deftly weaving together a new future, in what feels for all the world like a glittering, clear-eyed modern classic of alternative folk and Americana. Her songs hold a dynamism that conjure distinctive worlds of their own. This album is about discovery, searching with the eight points of a compass; about hope, gazing at the emanations within the eight points of a North Star; and about ancestry, being comforted by the eight-pointed stitching patterns used in quilt-making.