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Laura Marling: A Creature I Don't Know

Laura Marling sings in a clear, expressive voice that swoops birdlike from a dusky croon to a wry sing-speak. “The Muse,” which opens her third album, the adventurous A Creature I Don’t Know, may be the best showcase yet for that impressive vocal range: She sings most lines forcefully, exerting herself over the full folk accompaniment, then sings-speaks the last line of each stanza—more like an actor than a musician. It’s a simple, yet powerful technique, one that adds drama to the song and gives this 21-year-old artist a presence and authority that may belie her age....  read more

Laura Marling: That Awkward English Charm

A few seconds after taking the stage at the New York venue and book store Housing Works, Laura Marling looks out into the crowd and thanks them for being here instead of the official opening of the Spider-Man Broadway musical, also bowing that night. She seems reasonably sincere as she says this. There’s polite laughter.  read more

Laura Marling Announces Tour Dates, Releases New Song

English folk singer Laura Marling has announced a short North American tour in support of her third LP, A Creature I Don’t Know. Marling has also released her first single from the record, which comes out Sept. 13. The song, titled “Sophia,” starts out as a slow, melancholy affair before building into a downright folk-rocker....  read more

Laura Marling Announces New LP

Young folk sensation Laura Marling has announced her third album, A Creature I Don’t Know....  read more

10 Songs About Beds

We’re pooped today....  read more

Joanna Newsom, Best Coast, Mogwai at End of the Road Festival

NME reports this year’s End of the Road Festival includes big names like Joanna Newsom, Best Coast, Lykki Li, Mogwai, Midlake, Laura Marling, The Walkmen and Beirut....  read more

Watch Laura Marling Play a New Song

Via TwentyFourBit, Laura Marling recently debuted a song from her forthcoming album, Flicker and Fail, in a live performance at the BBC 2 Radio Folk awards....  read more

The xx, Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons Make Mercury Prize Shortlist

The coveted British album of the year award now awkwardly known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize has helped put artists like the Arctic Monkeys on the map. As The Guardian points out, the panel of British music critics who award the prize have “always made wildly idiosyncratic choices that often ignore the popular mood,” but sometimes these choices don’t seem so crazy two or three years after the fact. Case in point: the Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, Portishead....  read more

Laura Marling and Jack White Collaboration Gets Date

Jack White is really getting around these days. His soon-to-drop vinyl release with Conan O’Brien is kind of a big deal, sure, but another Paste favorite also stopped by White’s Third Man Records recently: Laura Marling. The Marling-White collaboration we told you about a few weeks ago now has a release date and some other details. Oh, and that Laura Marling has been pretty busy herself....  read more

Listen to Two Collaborative Songs From Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons

British folk meets traditional Indian music in the new EP from Paste favorites Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons. The acts performed with the Rajasthani folk collective Dharohar Project in December 2009 and will perform two exclusive gigs this month in the UK....  read more