Laura Marling loosens up the reins and explores being lost on Short Movie
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Alex McCown: Short Movie is the sound of Laura Marling’s identity crisis. It’s
her first album that actually sounds comfortable, and like Marling
herself, might not be fully comfortable with that fact. Once I Was An Eagle
was a towering record, an intimate yet epic album full of lush,
bombastic songs and vocals often feverish in their intensity. But still,
Marling and her acoustic guitar were always at the heart of things.
That album marked her artistic evolution from precocious “old soul” to a
young woman fully in command of her talent. Now she’s self-possessed,
with an ease and relaxed vibe that has never before come through as
fully as it does here...Continue reading...
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