11 April,2010 12:33 AM IST | | Team SMD
Laura Marling will stoke your deepest, darkest fears and desires with her second album
Artiste: Laura Marling
Label: EMI Virgin
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Young folkie Laura Marling is a brooding old maid inside her 20 year-old mind. Lines like "No hope in the air/No hope in the water/Not even for me your last serving daughter/Why fear death/Be scared of living" come easily to the Brit singer-songwriter. There are other beautifully bleak songs about babes, sirens and maids in her second album I Speak Because I Can.
She works her darkness brilliantly. The opening track Devil's spoke sounds sexy and shamanic at once with passionate riffs and lines that befit a mating dance: "Eye to eye/Nose to nose/Ripping each others clothes off in a most peculiar way." There couldn't have been a better start to the album, which if you've heard Laura's debut Alas I Cannot Swim, draws from similar themes but two years on, her new songs are moodier. Evocative love songs like What he wroteu00a0 and Blackberry stone with sweeping strings were nowhere within Laura's reach when she broke into the scene as a Joni Mitchell-Dylan idolising teen. Her preoccupation with transience continues in the elegiac Goodbye England (Covered in snow) yet there's a hint of a regular 20 year-old in this one -- she sings -- "I wrote my name in your book/Only God knows why/And I bet you he cracked a smile."
Laura's incandescence comes shining through all this grey.
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