MarieMarie lives in paradoxes, her music is fragile yet strong – artificial and intimate. She evokes emotional landscapes in her listeners´ heads. Her atmospherically dense songs lead us into a world of unfulfilled love, passion, violence, excess and tenderness. “The search for the other ultimately is the search for yourself” – it’s this inward journey that the autobiographical songs on O describe. O is an intricate studio album to listen and indulge from beginning to end, and at the same time it is an album for nerds, with its artfulness of multiple-layered sounds and asymmetries. It leaves room for imagination, blending intimacy and distance as well as vulnerability and strength, and allowing us to experience a multi-faceted, almost schizophrenic sound narrative between downbeat pop, R&B, electronic and art music. O witnesses the artist’s re-creation, her transition from the previously somewhat harmless pop girl to a woman, combining skillful songwriting with epic power. Art pop, poetic and dark.