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Laura Marling review – a sumptuous performance, with strings attached
The singer-songwriter’s impressive showcase of her new album is bookended by solo guitar numbers that underline what a class act she is
‘One skilful guitar motif anchoring cascades of words.’ Photograph: Sophia Evans/the ObserverAt the other end of the night comes a coda of older material – some with more accompaniment, some with less – kicking off with the riveting What He Wrote, a 2010 track redolent of Leonard Cohen. In the same way as Cat Power can fill venues singing the songs of Bob Dylan, you’d pay good money to hear Marling cover Cohen of an evening. The stage becomes busy with members of Hackney’s Deep Throat Choir, on hand to swell and swirl the nine songs taken from Patterns in Repeat, plus a string section and regular bassist Nick Pini.
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