Like Kate Nash, London-based 17-year-old Laura Marling has a demotic twang to her voice and a knack for finding poetry in otherwise banal details of human behaviour. The difference is, Marling’s medium is not piano-laced pop but acoustic folk.
New Romantic is the lead track on Marling’s forthcoming EP My Manic And I, out 8 October. Like Nash’s Foundations, it’s a song that will strike a chord with wronged women everywhere, thanks to vulnerable yet potty-mouthed lines such as, “My mind has fucked me over more times than any man could never know,” here delivered with the deadpan gaze of a stroppy teenager.
And if there’s a faint air of the school music recital about it, well, she is only 17.
my mums had me on computer 2 hours looking for this song that she heard on radio 2 weeks ago
Posted by heather at 07:18PM | October 4, 2007
this girl blows me away everytime, pre-order her special song box on her website, i just did...roll on february
Posted by almond at 04:10PM | December 12, 2007
gawd, isn't having ONE kate nash bad enough? we don't need another. i for one am fed up with so many white middle class youngsters on the music scene.
Posted by manson38 at 04:01PM | April 8, 2008
Hey, i am loving Laura Marling at the moment :)
I've just picked up some tickets for her church tour coming up in the UK, cant wait to see her. .. never seen her live yet
Here are the dates:
9th June Glasgow - Gilmore Hill and Upstairs at Oran Mor
10th June Manchester - St Phil's
11th June London - St James'
12th June Birmingham - St Paul's
