Topic: Laura Marling
Tweet Leonard Friend, "Serious Music" To state the obvious, Alex Feder's got moves. The former frontman of Brooklyn indie band The XYZ has now...
Laura Marling sings of dark desires and greedy needs on her latest CD. But she does so without shame or self-consciousness.. . "Tonight I choose...
British band Noah and The Whale rose to fame as part of the new London folk scene which produced Brit Award winners Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons, but they have broken out with their innovative third album.Just weeks after the ...
Her record sales may not match those of former folk cohorts Mumford & Sons but Laura Marling's following is more devoted than most. Marling handled that in the same way as this performance - with poise and good humour. NME recently named her ...
The new wave of British indie-folk is no longer a three-horse race. Laura Marling has a certain woolly-tights-wearing glamour; Mumford & Sons have the sales figures and Noah & The Whale exude poetic angst but Oxford's Stornoway have quietly snuck through on the ...
Laura Marling's debut album "Alas I Cannot swim" is an album I requested for Christmas after having loved "Ghosts", which would be the debut single by Laura. The first time I realised she wasn't some olden days singer (because Colin ...
Laura Marling?s follow up to the 2008 Mercury Prize nominatedWhen ?Alas?? was released, it was hailed as an astonishingachievement for an 18 year old. It is almost unbelievable?I Speak?? is rooted in the tradition of folk where the ability to ...
When the volatile American rock star Courtney Love appeared on Later. The leader, Marcus Mumford, a cuddly-looking young man, launched into the chorus with a compelling sense of mission:'It was not your fault but mine/And it was your heart on ...
Electronic band The xx have scooped prestigious music award the Mercury Prize for their debut album "xx", beating off stiff competition from a host of top acts.Judges handed the £20,000 (31,000-dollar, 24,000-euro) prize for best album of the ...
Keats wrote "Ode on Melancholy" at age 23. To this list of young overachievers, add Laura Marling, a British folksinger who released her second album having just celebrated her 20th birthday. But perhaps what Marling really shares with Keats & Co., beyond youth ...
