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[Above: Perennial nominee Alex Turner (here representing the 2006-winning, 2007-nominated Arctic Monkeys) accepts a Mercury. His project The Last Shadow Puppets is up for nomination this year.]
Anti-ingĂ©nue Laura Marling seems to embody weathered spirits in her spindly 18-year-old frame. The alt-folk singer/songwriter is quickly becoming the U.K.’s new darling—and she finds the wise-beyond-her-years accolades a bit silly. “I know a lot of people my age do exactly the same thing,” she says. “It’s completely relative to the person, you know?” But her debut album Alas I Cannot Swim is rigged with more tumult than a girl her age should understand. We thus present the following speculation about who Marling might’ve been in her former lives
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Episode 70
August 19, 2008