I Speak Because I Can
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.
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…
British folksinger Laura Marling’s 2008 debut, Alas I Cannot Swim, showed more depth and maturity than one would expect from a (then) 18-year-old.
Packing far more emotional weight than ever before...It’s staggering to think that Laura Marling is just twenty years old as her presence on the British music scene has been felt for what seems like an age.
Laura Marling is probably a lovely young lady, but fizzing with resentment over the sight of her name is a justifiable action.
The young folk singer has made a masterpiece, reckons <strong>Dave Simpson</strong>
Laura Marling is darker and more sophisticated with her new album I Speak Because I Can. Rating: * * * * *