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
Yes! I love when she does that specific intonation.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 6 April 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
It took me a few listens, but I'm starting to like this.
― o. nate, Thursday, 16 April 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
Is the rest of this album as good as Gurdjieff's Daughter? I've never really been that taken with LM but that song is incredible.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 06:42 (eight years ago) link
Gurdjieff is one of the strongest tracks on there; but more or less, yeah.
Saw her last night at the Institute in Brum; which is quite 'intimate' for her. The polite-white crowd were pretty subdued, but it was a good gig. She came on during the support act to sing backing vocals, wearing what looked to be Simon le Bon's blouse from the "Planet Earth" video.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
I just bought it an hour ago anyway, thanks though
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hnKz9rlna4
slightly misjudged video for "gurdjieff's daughter" imo unless she's meant to seem like an annoying manic pixie etc who keeps bothering her friends who are trying to read their books or hang out in peace
the album just keeps getting better though, she's so good at highlighting her best lyrics with melodic twists
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 10:47 (eight years ago) link
I made myself listen to this. I think she's great, but I am not that into the type of thing she does, so I had to make myself. I'm glad I did. "Gurdjieff's Daughter" is a standout, partly because her normally distinctive phrasing is even more distinctive there. Watching the video for the first time now and I noticed the kids are drawing enneagrams. On the strength of "Gurdjieff's Daughter" alone I think I need to give Marling much more attention. The only previous song of hers that I liked in a big way was "Devil's Spoke."
I think I'd be happy if she went more rock-oriented, although it just depends on what she does with it, obviously.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
When I read people talking about her American accent, I thought: I don't hear any American accent. But I wouldn't, or maybe I would if it were poorly done and affected?
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
I may be crazy but some of the phrasing is reminding me of "Bette Davis Eyes" of all things. Not saying there is much overall similarity.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
Intro. reminding me of some other song, but it's escaping me.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
I don't know exactly what she's going for, either lyrically or in the video, but it seems to fit as a cartoonish version of Gurdjieff badgering people into wakefulness. At other times it seems more like she is an embodiment of things the people in the house are trying to ignore.
As long as I'm making ridiculous comparisons, I also keep thinking of this (where her faces, and Brit in California image, are concerned). Terrible rip.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
(A Laura.)
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
"Consider" is a Fourth Way term of art, but she doesn't appear to be using it that way in her lyrics. Not sure what she is going for there.
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 17:52 (eight years ago) link
(Opening is reminding me of HAIM's "Honey & I" though I can't say it's very close, listening to them back to back.)
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 19 July 2015 18:02 (eight years ago) link
On the other hand, a lot of people are going overboard with the Sultan's of Swing comparison.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 20 July 2015 00:58 (eight years ago) link
- the damn "'"
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 20 July 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
I think this is her best and most consistent album so far. Despite the tagline about this being her electric album, my favorites on this are the acoustic tracks, for the most part.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 02:08 (eight years ago) link
― nate woolls, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:42 AM (6 months ago)
OTM
― tayto fan (Michael B), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCS4OTgaHeM
A very nice surprise.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 28 November 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link
(Maybe someone should start a thread for the new album.)
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 28 November 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
song's fairly good, strings are promising; concept is a bit less so
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 28 November 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
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.
― _Rudipherous_, Monday, 28 November 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link