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Laura Marling review – gently transcendent songs of motherhood and domesticity
She may confess to impostor syndrome, but these tender studies of the latest stage in her life show a remarkable artist in full bloom
Marling’s guitar playing is intricate, blending lead and sitar-like tones, while her vocals – still angelic – have taken on a richer, oaken quality since she emerged a clear victor from the “stomp-clap” folk-pop landscape in her teens. Your Girl, a meditative song on love and loss, feels particularly transcendent as the choral vocals fill the church, their ethereality set against Marling’s more tangible timbre. Sometimes it’s a poetic diversion in place of an established verse (during the lyrics of The Suite, for example); at other moments her guitar melodies wander off-piste, seemingly searching for an even deeper emotion.
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