By Mitchell Stirling May 24, 2013. With Laura Marling, there’s something in the water, it flows through her fourth album Once I Was An Eagle as it has done her previous work. The bodies of water keep getting wider; on her debut she couldn’t cross a river for a boy because “alas, I cannot swim” Here, she’s travelling over oceans. The album itself is broken into three acts, the first clearly marked by four unbroken songs. Opener ‘Take The Night Off’ is a mellow [...]
May 24, 7:00am
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Sometimes it feels like music is more interested in bells and whistles than it is the humble appeal of a melody. If you’re not whirling silken ribbons whilst simultaneously reverse coding the tandura through the innards of a vintage synthesiser found in the Oxfam near Gary Numan’s old house, you’re quite frankly not trying hard enough. And if, lord forbid, you’re happy with a humble guitar - that produces a thousand facets of different enchanting shades, a softly husky vocal that bites and magnifies to Goliath, before metamorphosing to the shaking David in one pause - prepare to be reduced [...]
LAURA Marling is a darling. Everyone loves her - she's the acceptable face of the Mumford & Sons alt-folk juggernaut, she's been nominated for the Mercury Prize twice, won a Brit for Best Female Solo Artist, , won Best Solo Artist at the NME Awards, singer songwriter Beans On Toast even wrote a song about how much he loved her. Luckily, it gives me great pleasure to say the latest LP from Ms Marling, Once I Was An Eagle, is high up there with her best material. And it gives me great pleasure to listen to, too [...]
The song that, for all intents and purposes, proved to be Laura Marling 's breakthrough provides an interesting instrument with which to gauge her relentless progression over the course of her short career to date. 'New Romantic' is wonderfully written; honest, witty, somehow both charming and heartbreaking, and yet it seems, by way of comparison to what's come since, almost juvenile. The failed-relationship basics of the lyrics stand out; Marling doesn't write songs with turns of phrase like 'pretty fit' any more. Some of the vocal nuances [...]
Laura Marling | lauramarling.com Once I Was An Eagle New LP out now
The young and extraordinarily accomplished singer-songwriter stops in San Francisco ahead of the release of her forthcoming 4th album.
Photos by David Benjamin In anticipation of her upcoming album, Once I Was An Eagle , Laura Marling performed at the beautiful Masonic Lodge in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. [View with PicLens]
Out of all the songs that Laura Marling could have covered from Bruce Springsteen's vast catalog, we would have likely figured it would have been something from either of his stark acoustic records - the brilliant Nebraska or its 1995 follow-up of sorts The Ghost of Tom Joad . Instead the folkie-chanteuse , who will release her fourth studio album Once I Was An Eagle next Tuesday, threw us for a bit of a curve ball, teaming up with Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Eddie Berman [...]
Tom Hines So Chicago was great, thanks for asking. Terrible weather forecasts came not to pass, though storms yesterday did wreak a little havoc on getting out of town. But that's neither here nor there, and I am now here, not there. And here is a very short post to confirm that I am, indeed, still alive. It's not entirely clear to me what the mandate of the Soundclash festival coming to Harbourfront Centre in July is, but at least part of it is to bring Brooklyn electro-pop duo Chairlift to town [...]
The release of a new Laura Marling album is always noteworthy, and not least because she's become one of the best songwriters that England can claim as its own, even if she's since relocated to Los Angeles. Her music has been moving down an increasingly darker path since debut Alas, I Cannot Swim was released five years ago, and as her career has flourished, so has her ambition. Her new album opens with a 16-minute medley split into four songs, and by the end of 'Breathe', it becomes apparent that she's no longer writing for a [...]
Mercury Music Prize nominee and Brit Award winning artist Laura Marling is prepping her fourth album for release next week. More than just a release, Marling has some surprises in store for her fans. An undisclosed East London location will host a series of Secret Cinema performances, which culminate with a love performance from Laura Marling. Featuring artists, dancers, and more, tickets go on sale via the Secret Cinema website May 23 at 1pm. Marling's new record is steaming in full for your listening [...]
May 22, 9:28am DIY
Laura Marling has announced plans to collaborate with Secret Cinema, to create a series of immersive live shows. The singer is set to release her fourth album 'Once I Was An Eagle' next week (27th May) and to celebrate, she's going to be teaming up with the organisation to 'bring to life' her newest offering. Secret Cinema, who work to create live themed cinema experiences, have previously worked with musicians such as Atoms For Peace, Radiohead and The Knife and now plan to conduct the shows with Marling in a secret East London [...]
With her new, and fourth, full-length due next week, Laura Marling is planning some special to celebrate the release - unveiling details of a series of upcoming Secret Cinema shows. The multiple events, set to take place at surprise locations across East London from 13-26 June and 18-21 June, will feature actors, artists, dancers and more - as well as a live performance from Marling herself. Tickets go on sale Thursday (23 May) at 1pm GMT, available via the Secret Cinema website [...]
Its been a good while since we've put up one of these type of posts, but a plethora of top notch releases meant it demanded to be temporarily resurrected! So without further ado we have another taste of Laura Marling's much anticipated new album in the shape of Once , and another taste from the rather weirder folk songstress Amanda Jo Williams and Holster, The Gun It Hangs In There, which is taken from her new album You're The Father Of My Songs . Cass McCombs [...]
Laura Marling releases stream of new album. Laura Marling will release her fourth album, Once I Was An Eagle through Ribbon Music on May 28th. The new album was recorded in the English...
Recorded in 10 days and each song in one take... the very talented Laura Marling is set to release her new album Once I Was An Eagle at the end of this month but you can hear the superb LP a week earlier courtesy of The Guardian .
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It's safe to say Laura Marling has a damn solid back catalogue, three up until this point, and she's preparing to release her fourth shortly following up 2008's Alas, I Cannot Swim , 2010's beautiful I Speak Because I Can and 2011's A Creature I Don't Know . On the 28th of May she will drop Once I Was An Eagle , her third album in 4 years! She managed to record the entire new record in 10 days with vocals and acoustic guitars being laid down [...]
It's a packed Tuesday, y'all... ► The Black Angels roar through Los Angeles and headline the Mayan Theatre. Expect to hear some songs off of their new record "Indigo Meadow." L.A.'s very own garage doo-wopper Hanni El Khatib supports alongside Parisian psych-rock trio Wall of Death . ► Australian electro duo the Presets play the Avalon in support of their latest album "Pacifica." That's their video for "Fall" above, and Canadian electro-pop band Dragonette opens. ► Laura Marling returns to the Masonic Lodge at [...]
Laura Marling has offered up a full preview of her brand new album, streaming now over at NPR . Once I Was An Eagle , the follow-up to 2011′s A Creature I Don’t Know , will come out next week (27 May) – her fourth record to date. Before then however, you can stream it in its entirety here . The tracklist is in full below, including lead cuts 'Master Hunter' and 'Where Can I Go?' 1. Take The Night Off 2. I Was An Eagle [...]
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