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bunnyben
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laura marling

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i saw her supporting danny johnston and she did nothing for me except one song. i heard her album 'i speak...' but it did little for me. now she has a new sinlge and i quite like it. thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77i45s0Edso
'raging and weeping are left on the early road
now each in his holy hill
the glittering and hurting days are alomst done
then let us compare mythologies
i have learned my elaborate lie
of soaring crosses and poisened thorns'
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I have a shamefully big crush on her.

It is a bit too folky in places for me, if that makes sense? As an example, I preferred the debut over her last album. So I don't know if she's gonna drift further from the bits I liked to places that don't hold my attention as much with this record. But the deciding vote falls on her song Night Terror, which I love and still can't believe was written by a 17 year-old. It never ceases to give me a little chill when the quartet kicks in for the ending. A truly great song and proof of her precocious talent (which journalists seem to talk about far more than the actual music she makes).

She's been lumped in with all those other current trashy 'folk' bands like Mumford, when really she wipes the floor with all of them. You can imagine her in 30 or 40 years making albums and playing occasionally.
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