Laura Marling’s songs deserve unwavering attention in order to truly appreciate their power. Word heavy, poetic folk is not something you can passively receive and this makes Laura’s task of keeping the audience engaged all the harder. For the most part this is something she achieves, the solo slot in the middle being perfectly timed but there are equally moments when the variation is so subtle that you could forgive the audience for drifting off.
Opener I Was Just a Card starts with Laura’s quiet, dusky vocals, swelling mid set to culminate into an ensemble of sounds; an indicator of...
Photos of Laura Marling at Birmingham Symphony Hall on 2nd March 2012. Taken by Jo Cox – www.jocoxphotography.co.uk
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It’s hard to believe that Laura Marling is so young. At just 21, she has released three albums, growing in depth and maturity with each one, her voice becoming even better as time goes by. Both her last records were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, and she won the Best Female Solo Artist award at this years Brits; that’s a damn fine achievement for one so young.
Her music has always been folk-based, but with A Creature I Don’t Know, Marling has embraced Americana more fully than with her last albums, and it’s yielded brilliant results. It’s darker and denser than her previous...
