Anticipate Laura Marling's fifth LP: Short Movie.

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?

whoa this album is sounding really great on one listen apart from the very jarring "strange"

love the deserty dusty arrangements

if she's been living in LA for a while it makes sense her accent will have slipped a bit, that happens with some people. it doesn't sound like an affectation except on "strange"

"howl" is amazing

Is this less subdued than the last one? I couldn't get into that at all.

yeah I would say so

seemed hella subdued to me on my first listen.

http://www.npr.org/event/music/394458428/laura-marling-south-x-lullaby

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

New album is getting unexpectedly rave reviews for something that on first contact felt kind of slight, but several plays in now and it has completely taken over my brain and feels massively substantially precision-gorgeous and moving.

I was pretty ambivalent about LM's early records when she first emerged but now each new album further convinces me that she is total genius. I slept on the last album a bit re pandemic but it really holds up; Short Movie and Semper Femina have also brought much aggro/luxe sumptuousness this year. Need to go back to her first ones as I may be way more receptive now.

I heard Patterns earlier and loved it - the first thing of hers I've really paid attention to. Am now desperately trying to unsee that her dad has the 5th Marling Baronetcy.

heh! - that was always the proverbial straw for me tbh. Obscenely class war really, but I can't fucking help myself.

She does cover a track by her dad on this album!, which is poss not a great selling point (it is lovely, though)

I have also always been a bit underwhelmed by her, but caught her by accident on Later last week and thought she was easily the best act on there.

This is really doing it for me, like some undiscovered treasure from the early 70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QH0bONb7RQ

the title track has a nice little callback to "Breathe" from Once I Was An Eagle

I love the run from A Creature through Femina, especially Short Movie.