I Speak Because I Can

by 

Laura Marling

Album • Jan 01 / 2010 • 11 songs, 38m 30s
Singer-Songwriter Indie Folk Contemporary Folk
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8.1 / 10

Just out of her teens, promising UK songwriter starts to come into her own on her second album, a top five success in her home country.

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Laura Marling’s 2007 debut Alas, I Cannot Swim was a masterpiece of such world-weariness and maturity that it was hard to believe it was released just after the singer-songwriter’s 17th birthday. Yet Swim captured the live-wire emotional intensity of adolescence even as its songcraft and literate lyrics betrayed the…

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8.9 / 10

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9 / 10

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7 / 10

Laura Marling is probably a lovely young lady, but fizzing with resentment over the sight of her name is a justifiable action.

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The young folk singer has made a masterpiece, reckons <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>

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Laura Marling is darker and more sophisticated with her new album I Speak Because I Can. Rating: * * * * *

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