Library Rock's Backpages

Laura Marling

Laura Marling

18 articles

List of articles in the library

By date | By writer | Most recently added

Laura Marling: Once I Was an Eagle

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 24 May 2013

EVEN IN A CAREER already marked by unusual precocity, Once I Was an Eagle is an extraordinary achievement, the kind of album that both summarises ...

Laura Marling: Short Movie

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 20 March 2015

Her self-imposed exile is the one thematic mainspring driving this record ...

Laura Marling: Semper Femina

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 1 March 2017

THERE'S A MOMENT, almost exactly midway through her sixth album, when Laura Marling asks herself, "Lately I'm wondering if all my pondering is taking up ...

Laura Marling: I Speak Because I Can (Virgin) ****

Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 19 March 2010

ON I Speak Because I Can, Laura Marling continues to demonstrate why she's such an exciting singer-songwriter. ...

Laura Marling: Once I Was An Eagle (Virgin)

Review and Interview by Andy Gill, Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, June 2013

The "English Joni" ruthlessly dissects her love life on confessional fourth. ...

Adele, Duffy et al: This Year's Vintage

Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 11 January 2008

Caroline Sullivan on 2008's big female voices ...

Folk-rock's Laura Marling, a star in U.K. at 17, hits New York Friday

Report and Interview by Gene Santoro, New York Daily News, 18 January 2008

IN 2006, LAURA Marling, a 16-year-old Brit from Hampshire, started heading to London every week, looking for clubs to play and flats to crash at ...

Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know

Review and Interview by Graeme Thomson, Uncut, October 2011

A prodigious talent finds new intensity on her third album, says Graeme Thomson ...

Laura Marling: Once I Was An Eagle

Review by Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, June 2013

WHEN LAURA Marling announced that her follow-up to 2011's A Creature I Don't Know would be a mostly solo acoustic affair, one may have been ...

Laura Marling

Profile and Interview by Johnny Black, R2/Rock'n'Reel, November 2009

DESPITE ALL HER best efforts to stick a spike in the wheel of success, Laura Marling is fast-becoming the most talked-about young singer-songwriter of recent ...

Laura Marling: "My songs are not pretty"

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 4 February 2008

IN A RECENT POSTING on a music website, one of Laura Marling's growing army of fans described her output as "pretty folk songs about boys". ...

Whenever power emerges, there's a sense of innocence lost — Laura Marling: Once I Was An Eagle (Rough Trade)


Review by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 23 May 2013

Her voice, once so English, has turned into a slip-slidey American lilt, half-speech, half-jazz, frequently yoyoing to a deeper register... In Marling, we're watching an ...

Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know (Virgin) ****

Review by Keith Cameron, Q, September 2011

Nu-folk starlet shines ever brighter on third outing. ...

Laura Marling: "I've got the confidence now"

Interview by Laura Barton, The Guardian, 1 September 2011

AT JUST 21, folk star Laura Marling is already three albums into a career built on furious talent and untempered ambition. She talks to Laura ...

Laura Marling: Westminster Methodist Central Hall, London ***

Live Review by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 31 October 2011

A Dylanesque troubadour who's knocking on heaven's door ...

Laura Marling: Manchester Cathedral

Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 25 October 2011

Laura Marling showed her uncommon poise and gift for bewitchment during her When The Bell Tolls gig at Manchester Cathedral. ...

The privileged are taking over the arts – without the grit, pop culture is doomed

Comment by Stuart Maconie, New Statesman, 4 February 2015

With school music spending down and the benefits system crippled, the voices of pop have lost their bite. ...

Laura Marling: Short Movie

Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 9 April 2015

"I'M JUST A horse with no name," sings Laura Marling on 'Warrior' — slyly invoking the 1970s soft-rock hit by America while conjuring a wanderer ...

RSS

back to LIBRARY

COPYRIGHT NOTICE