Anticipate Laura Marling's fifth LP: Short Movie.

Lol! i will do.

FPing furiously over here

this took a turn

wtf just happened

haha noooooo clue

CAD are you secretly English nobility I had no idea! didn't know the celtics took off over there

but for real fuck whoever that lunatic is, no one even said a thing in response to xelab's initial barb about her being the daughter of some lord, which, who gives a fuck?

well thank god for your brevity and consistency, well actually no you are a boring fucking pleb.

will somebody please think of the children

wow, my flag post finger is getting quite a workout! Well done, xelab. You have quite a knack for swooping into threads and randomly insulting everyone posting to it for no apparent reason.

suspected sock or just a bored drunk troll? you and nuki should hang out

in any case you fuck off and listen to sleaford mods you soppy limey prick, no one started a goddamn thing with you

(xxxp)

can think of a few potential puppets if that name is indeed a sock

in any case, laura marling's p cool

Search function says xelab's first posts were on Dec 11, 2013, so it was a timebomb set to go off in a year it appears.

slothroprhymes is a worse new poster than raccoon tanuki

OMG IM CRUSHED

That's a magnificent achievement imo

also xelab rules get over your chill selves

even tho he yelled at me i think xelab has pretty cool taste in music

i literally have no idea who xelab is but i think my new goal is to get every british poster to hate me despite the fact that i rarely interact with them.

Confused by the squabbling in here but I like the new song; mildly surprised that the album title isn't six syllables long; hoping that she pulls things in slightly different directions to her past stuff on this one, even if I do love all of what she's done before very much.

xp I'm all for this pursuit it's def already happening for me and I too have rarely initiated arguments or even convos w them

monotony it is a v good song & I apologize for contributing for the clog-up of the thread

*to the clog-up

Yeah, the single seems to indicate something in between her last two albums, something a little more breezier? Thematically it looks much of the same: Marling speaking directly to someone about relationship.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nny4zzUlkSQ

interesting track, not sure that I wanted to hear her rock more

I like it alright.

I can imagine her welcoming a new direction after Eagle but this is still a bit strange to me.

It grew on me, but I hope it's an unique track on the album.

heard from someone that got a promo of this and they say it's "dark"

gritty laura marling reboot

once I was an eagle was already plenty dark

She's been 'dark' for a while now, arguably.

she started out pretty dark and has rarely been otherwise

We've heard this already, but here's a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqf7DxBAuSw

very nice, this song is growing on me

Likewise, or at least it must be--it was only when I scrolled back upthread that I realized that I'd heard this one already.

Another track from the new record:

https://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/laura-marling-i-feel-your-love

Loving this one. A lot.

This is shaping to be very very good.

"Strange" is already one of my absolute favourtie songs of hers.

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/15/391924095/first-listen-laura-marling-short-movie

not available in Canada, how is it?

this rules so much but i've long been a card-carrying stan

I thought the album was a masterpiece at first. But less sure now. Largely because her American accent is just so obtrusive across the whole record … Now I'm aware of it I find it hard to hear anything else.

Hasn't she had that for a while now? It's an affectation but I don't mind it.

I went back and listened to Once I Was an Eagle to check, and it's much less pronounced there. I wondered if it was just me, but I bumped into Will H the other night and asked if he's heard the album, and he replied: "What's going on with that American accent?". It's at its worst on the spechgesang tracks, Strange and Gurdjeff's Daughter, when she does that weird singsong intonation that sounds like Tom Verlaine with terrible hiccups.

Strange is my favourite. I just see it as creating a persona.

a little busy innit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCS4OTgaHeM

A very nice surprise.

(Maybe someone should start a thread for the new album.)

song's fairly good, strings are promising; concept is a bit less so

I like the fact that it is as much of a change in direction as it is, but I agree it's more solidly good than amazing.

Also, I didn't expect her to have a new album in the works so soon.

It seemed like she was looking for a different approach on the last album, but I was expecting that to mean rocking harder. So this is an interesting curveball.

New single's groove reminds me of an understated Fiona Apple. Gorgeous track.

Currently feeling: the delivery of the line "I need soothing..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EUdZFcq-QE

I think I like this more than "Soothing." I'm looking forward to the new album.

The second single is so good yeah. I'm much more excited about this one than the last, which I liked but never really properly connected to as with her others

http://www.npr.org/event/music/515736349/first-watch-laura-marling-next-time

Really enjoying the new one and how concise it is. "Nothing, Not Nearly" reminds me of Nina Persson's solo work, which is never a bad thing.

The album is beautiful, in particular "Next Time" and its strings which seem to endlessly unfold

"the valley" also devastating in its stillness

Good points :) can totally see why Blake Mills (producer) is also working with Fiona Apple, similar little theatrical touches here and there.

Semper Femina has knocked me out, what a gorgeous album
I generally liked her before, I never heard the last one, but this is really hitting me
great production, between this and the new Mark Eitzel it's nice to hear some records that are produced so well

I really dislike the way her voice lurches up when she sings "you can't come in, you don't live here anymore". It disproportionately bothers me given it's one of the first things you hear on an otherwise excellent album.

Kinda feel like she was in danger of becoming one of those artists who becomes less engaging as they mature artistically and the move towards Laurel Canyon-esque folk rock on the last few records hasn't really done it for me but this is great. Sounds amazing on good headphones as well.

yeah this is great, I need to hear her last couple albums. I kinda tuned out a while ago for no good reason

where to start with her? heard a more trance-like minimal acoustic-leaning kind of one on the radio which i liked then listened to one of her albums and it was more rock-y than i thought it'd be

Once I Was An Eagle = trance-like and acoustic

Short Movie = more rock oriented

Both are very good though

new one is pretty but i don't like the tapping/drum machine lots

she also sing-talks in a british movie lady accent on this one, so i guess she's been shaking the seeping americanism people were noting ca. 'eagle'?

Has anyone listened to LUMP? I didn't even realize this came out until right now. Seems good so far.

I'm amazed this new one seems to be flying under the radar. Listening to it, I keep thinking it reminds me a lot of Hannah Peel, and turns out Peel plays trombone on it, so go figure. It's nice to hear Marling trying out a new direction.

the single I've heard was nice, totally forgot the album was out as well

Living Room Tiny Desk Concert for new album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzBrwRLX2E

There are about five Laura Marling threads, this one seemed the most active.

New album's pretty good, I need to listen to it again.

So I have it on now, and am I wrong in thinking this is her most Sheryl Crow-ish sounding album? I don't mean that as a criticism.

I love Laura Marling, and this new one really hasn't connected with me so far. Not yet ready to say it's the album's fault though.

Her voice sounds so good on that Tiny Desk video