The new Laura Marling album, 'I speak because I can' is bloody wonderful. Truly. I've listened to it on repeat all morning and I seem to be liking it more and more each time.
The finish is incredibly professional whilst still retaining a vulnerable rawness. She's that bit more accessible than Joanna Newsom's bleating harp yet doesn't cross into the pop realm that other folk artists, such as Regina for one, seem to have slipped into.
I honestly don't know what more to say. I'm not a music critic so I can't wax lyrical about the subtle nuances that scream of a folk revival akin to the blah blah blah... but I love decent music and this, my friends, is decent. Lyricism like, Eye to eye, nose to nose / Ripping off each other's clothes in a most peculiar way, coupled with sitars, strings, eery howls and acoustic guitars ticks all the boxes.This is folk celebrating rural England in all its frost covered, blackberry foraging, dog walking, tea drinking, by-the-hearth warming glory. Bravo Laura- epic.
Oh and, the single is out on iTunes from today- 15th- and clever people may buy the whole album from March 22nd. (Again, on iTunes.) Do it!
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