What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

LAURA MARLING "a creature i dont know", cd, 2011.

i was pretty pleased that some of you guys here picked up on Laura after i first posted about her last year, and i am proud to say that her new album is yet another feather in her cap and also potentially finds a place in your collection as it does mine,the girl who is only 20 is already a master of her craft as those of you who have heard her now agree.

ok, this is the third album in as many years for this now 21 year old folk singer from Hampshire, England....

and she just keeps getting better and better IMO, both lyrically and also with development of her musical style, gone are the atmospheric,sparse, emotiveness of her debut and second album and in are a few more meaty sounds.
although i think she still owes a lot of her style to Joni Mitchel and i firmly believe from what i know of P.J Harvey(which isnt that extensive) that there are elements of her songs creeping in here, its not a bad thing to sound at times like someone else as long as you have something new to add to it...and Laura does, and she thoroughly deseves to be placed alongside the folk greats of the late 60s and early 1070s.
the album reached a well deserved #4 in the UK, but a paltry #99 in the US....maybe in time she will get the success she deserves.
its bloody hard to pick a 'best track' here as they all are consistantly good, with no throwaway tracks(just like her previous efforts), tracks 1,2,7,9 and 10 all come pretty close to a "love" rating so ive got to give them 2.3, the rest all get solid 2.0's giving the overall score of 2.2 for this one.

this is one talented girl who doesnt need to remove her clothes and act trashy in her videos...guess thats the difference between talent and image.

do yourselves a favour and take the time to listen to this one and again i promise you wont be dissapointed with my recommendation!

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: n/a
best track: all my rage

tracks:

1. the muse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-u8blElEyQ live
2. i was just a card
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfXPpaLlmcY live
3. dont ask me why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJ0onK_xUw live
4. selinas
5. the beast
6.night after night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAMxAYkU7gQ live
7. my friends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUh1vWbkLFc audio
8. rust in the bed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkbRhC9bSng audio
9. sophia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77i45s0Edso audio
10.all my rage
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjHHiEZdcmk live

2.3s=5
2.0s=5

rating: 2.2

bonus link i found on youtube:

a very good version of Neil Young's "the needle and the damage done" by Laura Marling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yxBeq0Std4 live