Tipped for big things in 2010, Marina Diamandis has been parachuted into our lives courtesy of the kind of marketing budget that the music industry can rarely afford in these tough times.

She needs it, too, because her music, which weds a series of irritating vocal mannerisms to laboured lyrical puns and disjointed melodies, isn’t distinctive enough to win us over by itself.

There’s actually a song on here called Hermit The Frog.

2/5

WILL FULFORD-JONES