Laura Marling
BBC Proms live online: Anoushka Shankar/Laura Marling - scintillating sitar and fortified folkMonday, 07 September 2020
In what would have been the year her father, the legendary sitar player Ravi Shankar turned 100, sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar pays tribute to him and builds on his legacy in this online Prom. The pre-recorded first half saw Shankar... Read more... |
CD: Laura Marling - Semper FeminaFriday, 03 March 2017
Laura Marling's new album is called Semper Femina - two words the singer-songwriter also has tattooed on her leg. It's Latin for "always a woman". Despite having the motto inscribed on her flesh, Marling claims to find it hard to write... Read more... |
Laura Marling, QEHWednesday, 22 April 2015
There’s no doubting the precocious talent of Laura Marling. At just 25 she recently released her fifth album, Short Movie, which matched the spiky introspection of song-writing previously driven by folk melodies with a new rock-orientated sound.... Read more... |
CD: Laura Marling - Short MovieSaturday, 21 March 2015
The best singer-songwriters, you might say, survey life's experiences with a forensic eye. That’s certainly true of Laura Marling. Her new album Short Movie chronicles the singer's recent stint in LA where she'd relocated for a couple of... Read more... |
CD: Laura Marling - Once I Was an EagleSaturday, 25 May 2013
I suppose that whether Once I Was An Eagle appeals may depend on whether you consider "underwhelming" a synonym for "disappointing". It's the word that surfaces most, the more I listen to the fourth album from newly Los Angeles-resident Laura... Read more... |
Laura Marling, Colston Hall, BristolSunday, 04 March 2012
Laura Marling has a way, in mid-song, of arching her head back as far as it will go, as if she were opening herself up to the heavens. She’s never been one to let herself go on stage, at least not physically: there are no unnecessary... Read more... |
CD of the Year: Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't KnowWednesday, 28 December 2011
This was the year I finally fell in love with Laura Marling’s music. I liked her first two albums well enough, but I couldn't quite shake the feeling that the endless chorus of critical hosannas was more about what people wanted her to be than what... Read more... |
CD: Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't KnowSunday, 04 September 2011
The music-buying public must sometimes get tired of critics declaiming that modern songwriting is as good as ever. As good as The Stones, or Al Green, or Joni Mitchell? Really? Laura Marling’s first two albums do a lot to shore up the critics’ case... Read more... |
Laura Marling, Corn Exchange, CambridgeSaturday, 17 April 2010
To call Laura Marling folk rock’s Sylvia Plath for the Pete Doherty generation probably sounds like faint praise. But ever since I heard her described thus I haven’t been able to lose the Plath comparison. Fragile, sensitive, effortlessly... Read more... |
New Music CDs Round-Up 7Saturday, 27 March 2010
The best or at least most interesting new music CDs our reviewers have heard this month includes the latest from electro-pop pioneers Goldfrapp, Ry Cooder collaborating with the Chieftains, Ethiopian jazz from Mulatu Astatke as well as new albums... Read more... |
