Laura Marling is an incredible young artist from Hampshire, England. While her roots stand strongly in folk music, she tours with various Alternative artists, and you can see the influence in her work. A talented guitar player and wonderful lyricist, her music is soulful and poetic. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim released in Feburary 2008 was nominated for the Mercury Prize (a prize awarded to the best album in United Kingdom and Ireland). She followed this with her album I Speak Because I Can in March 2010, which was also nominated for the Mercury Music Award and entered the UK album charts at Number 4.
You will like her if you like: Mumford and Sons, Noah and the Whale, Florence + the Machine, The Avett Brothers, Joni Mitchell
Why she is important: Her mature, poetic lyrics well preceed her age. Her angelic voice is powerful and melodic without overpowering the music. A perfectly simple voice to overlay complex lyrics
Songs to listen to: "New Romantic", "Ghosts", "Rambling Man", "I Speak Because I Can", "Devil's Spoke"
- J
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