Anya Marina

Break It Down: Anya Marina 01/28/2009

"I get weird songs in my head and putting pen to paper is kind of like a diuretic," Anya Marina says about why she writes songs. "If I didn't get them out, they would probably make my mind feel very bloated. And no girl likes to be bloated." Perhaps that's why Marina's new album, Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II, feels like a skillful embodiment of that old storyteller's adage "less is more." ...more