Can anybody in modern folk write a stronger lick than Laura Marling: over the past couple of years, on song after song, she has written one great lick after the other. Just this December, she performed a new song, “Strange” that seemed to blow the roof off the Beacon with an intense lick she strummed so hard it is a wonder her hand didn’t break (my review here).
In the interim, we’ve hear the beautiful title track “Silent Movie” and the New York centric, lick nervousness “False Hope” about Hurricane Sandy, On March 23rd, Laura’s Silent Movie is released in the UK (24th here) and I am seeing her on the Monday at Warsaw so very excited for that.
Finally here is the high romance “I Feel Your Love” -it is not true Laura is overly melodramatic when it comes to being in love, she is overly dramatic whatever she sings and it is absolutely true, she can’t build a fence, she has to be an “electric fence”. This song sounds more like Once I Was An Eagle than the other three I’ve heard, the strings are an enforcer in ways the guitar strings were earlier. Do I like it? yes, indeed.
As Long as we’re here, here is the track list:
Short Movie:
01 Warrior
02 False Hope
03 I Feel Your Love
04 Walk Alone
05 Strange
06 Don’t Let Me Bring You Down
07 Easy
08 Gurdjieff’s Daughter
09 Divine
10 How Can I
11 Howl At the Moon
12 Short Movie
13 Worship
Grade: B+ (for the song not the album…