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
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 18 December 2014 00:59 (nine years ago) link
monotony it is a v good song & I apologize for contributing for the clog-up of the thread
― franch montana (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 18 December 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
*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.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 18 December 2014 01:03 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nny4zzUlkSQ
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
interesting track, not sure that I wanted to hear her rock more
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 19:54 (nine years ago) link
I like it alright.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 20:35 (nine years ago) link
I can imagine her welcoming a new direction after Eagle but this is still a bit strange to me.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 23:02 (nine years ago) link
It grew on me, but I hope it's an unique track on the album.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
heard from someone that got a promo of this and they say it's "dark"
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 12 February 2015 23:14 (nine years ago) link
gritty laura marling reboot
― j., Friday, 13 February 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
once I was an eagle was already plenty dark
― katherine, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
She's been 'dark' for a while now, arguably.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 February 2015 04:23 (nine years ago) link
she started out pretty dark and has rarely been otherwise
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 February 2015 07:08 (nine years ago) link
We've heard this already, but here's a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqf7DxBAuSw
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 23:09 (nine years ago) link
very nice, this song is growing on me
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 19 February 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
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.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 February 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Another track from the new record:
https://soundcloud.com/ribbonmusic/laura-marling-i-feel-your-love
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 7 March 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Loving this one. A lot.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 March 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
This is shaping to be very very good.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 March 2015 23:51 (nine years ago) link
"Strange" is already one of my absolute favourtie songs of hers.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Saturday, 14 March 2015 12:35 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/15/391924095/first-listen-laura-marling-short-movie
― Mordy, Monday, 16 March 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link
not available in Canada, how is it?
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 16 March 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
this rules so much but i've long been a card-carrying stan
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link
Hasn't she had that for a while now? It's an affectation but I don't mind it.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:11 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:43 (nine years ago) link
Strange is my favourite. I just see it as creating a persona.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 19 March 2015 14:12 (nine years ago) link
a little busy innit?
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
whoa this album is sounding really great on one listen apart from the very jarring "strange"
love the deserty dusty arrangements
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
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"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
"howl" is amazing
Is this less subdued than the last one? I couldn't get into that at all.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
yeah I would say so
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Friday, 20 March 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
seemed hella subdued to me on my first listen.
― j., Friday, 20 March 2015 20:59 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/event/music/394458428/laura-marling-south-x-lullaby
― Mordy, Sunday, 22 March 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
there are parts of this where vocally she sounds distractingly like taylor swift
― katherine, Monday, 23 March 2015 11:50 (nine years ago) link
great album. this is how i always wanted joni mitchell to continue after "wild things run fast".
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 23 March 2015 12:24 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young aside, I find 70s Laurel Canyon to be some of the most boring rock music imaginable but I really like this. Gurdjieffs’s Daughter is fantastic.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link
Heavy shades of PJ's Stories From the City on False Hope.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 23 March 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
this is very good! also i adore 70s laurel canyon, fuiud
― marcos, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, March 23, 2015 12:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha DEFINITELY, i was trying to put a finger on why it sounded so familar. i wasn't a huge fan of that album and no surprise then that i don't particularly like false hope
― marcos, Monday, 23 March 2015 19:47 (nine years ago) link
enjoyed this more than the last few but her accent continues to annoy me too, makes me trust the record less somehow
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:26 (nine years ago) link
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.
i don't mind those bits that much though, she sounds like tanita tikaram on those.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:27 (nine years ago) link
also gurdjieff's daughter sounds kind of like sultans of swing by way of the smiths, knopfler's stock is on the rise
― cgi bubka (NickB), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:29 (nine years ago) link
I definitely thought of Dire Straits when I heard that one.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:40 (nine years ago) link
Not as great as Eagle and Creature but I am still enjoying it a lot so far. It might grow on more more than I suspect (like Marling usually does).
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
On my first listen now and this feels kinda transitional, like she's trying to figure out if her next step should be Laurel Canyon-y folk rock or if she should stick with that sort of thick, rich, booming acoustic sound of her earlier records (which I thought reached tour-de-force level with Once I Was an Eagle). Certainly going from some of the slicker material on this record to "Howl" is kind of a jarring experience.
I still really like the title track.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
A few songs on this are in her pantheon of greats: Gurdjieff's Daughter, Short Movie, I Feel Your Love, Howl.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 6 April 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
"gurdjieff's daughter" is pretty astonishing
be wary of being given a name / if for some reason you're not considered the same / once they name you / they have been known to / lock you in
― lex pretend, Monday, 6 April 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
Has anyone listened to LUMP? I didn't even realize this came out until right now. Seems good so far.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 5 July 2018 04:22 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 6 July 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
the single I've heard was nice, totally forgot the album was out as well
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 6 July 2018 19:38 (five years ago) link
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.
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 May 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
New album's pretty good, I need to listen to it again.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 9 May 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
Her voice sounds so good on that Tiny Desk video
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 May 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link