Description
Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
Laura Marling is singer-songwriter from Eversley, Hampshire, where she learned guitar at a young age. As a teenager, Laura was one of the original members of Noah and the Whale. She rose to fame through the London folk scene and later found prominence as a solo artist. Laura has toured with a number of well-recognised indie bands and her own work is acknowledged for her bold melodies and poetic lyrics.
Laura Marling's debut solo album, Alas, I Cannot Swim, was released in 2008. The album went on to be nominated for that year's Mercury Music Prize but lost out to Elbow's ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’.
Laura said: “I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent…I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole… When a song wants to be written, it will be written…The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.”
As Laura’s website tells of the new album, which she has produced on her own label; “Semper Femina is Laura Marling’s sixth studio album. It was largely written on the road, following the release of Laura’s acclaimed album, Short Movie, in spring 2015. Its loose lyrical thread strings together her keen, freshly observed take on womanhood, and what Laura describes as a particularly ‘masculine time in her life’.
It is a record that similarly addresses questions of how society views sexuality and gender but without seeking to provide definitive answers. It retains an openness to express and portray her own ‘voyage’ of self-discovery, but also to develop and learn as artist, performer, and as an individual over the course of her career.
A rich and enriching listen, Semper Femina is a typically mature and raw record by one of our most talented and prolific young musicians of a generation.”