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Motherhood is full of agony, but its songs are deemed “nice”

Tracey Thorn wrote in The New Statesman: "Laura Marling made me cry the other day. I was on my morning walk with her new album – mentioned in these pages last week – in my headphones. The track 'Child of Mine' began with the sound of a baby gurgling. The guitar part started up and I idly wondered, 'Is that baby on Laura’s lap, or in a Moses basket at her feet?' and then suddenly there were tears streaming down my face. It was this line that got me – 'Last night in your sleep you started crying/I can’t protect you there though I keep trying'. And it got me, as they say, right in the feels."

Marling Will Always Live in the English Counrtyside

Guillermo Rodicio described howhe discovered Marling's music in an article titled "Laura Marling sempre vivirà na campiña inglesa". "I did not quite understand what he was doing," he wrote, "but I took the first English bus that appeared and I was half asleep listening to Laura's music, because it seemed to be what had to be done. I woke up again at the last stop on the line and the driver told me we were in Reading, west of London. It was an orderly and quiet city, with deserted streets on a Tuesday afternoon. I decided to continue walking, without a destination. I passed a car rental, but at that time I did not have a credit card. What I could do was ride a bike, so I rented one in a store that I found. I left Reading mounted on a borrowed bike, and thinking of the verses of I speak because I can...Night was beginning to fall when I saw a light in the distance, beyond the trees. I arrived at a solitary, white and sunny roofed house, invaded by the ivy and in front a green door, on which was carved Blackberry Stone, like in that Laura song that begins: 'Well I own this land / And I wrote this sky / And I have no reason to reason with you.'"

The Boy With The Marling Tattoo

Chal Ravens [on the way home from seeing "Local Natives" play their last show of 2010 at The Forum]

"But this time it's just a guy, about my age, on his way back from a gig. He asks us if we know who Laura Marling is, and we say we do, and he says we look like we would (I don't know what that means). He'd been to see her that night, on his own, and had been standing right in front of the stage and had lifted his leg up there to reveal to Laura Marling a tattoo, from his ankle to halfway up his calf. It said Laura Marling. In child-like handwriting, large, with two child-like flowers at each end. It was not the best tattoo I'd ever seen.

"The woman herself saw it and proclaimed him to be 'the most chronically weird' fan ever, to which he replied that he was drunk when he got it done. So she told him he was 'the coolest' fan ever. Respect to her for acknowledging him. It must be really, really odd when people you've never met ink your name on their body permanently. So he tells us all this and explains that when he got the tattoo it had been a toss-up between Laura Marling or The Courteneers. 'You probably did alright there,' I tell him."
---- CHAL RAVENS blog post (excerpt) - 25/11/2010

Joe Hick's Favorite Song

UK singer/songwriter Joe Hicks, in an interview with Alan Corr of RTE, said that his favourite song right now is 'Soothing' by Laura Marling, which he described as "a mesmerising piece of music that has so much texture I swear you can reach out and touch the sound coming out of the speakers."

GRETTA RAY: Love Letter to 'Once I Was An Eagle'

Australian singer/songwriter Gretta Ray wrote a love letter to ONCE I WAS AN EAGLE, explaining that she has "never known a record that sounds more like a musical reading of a classic novel or an iconic collection of poems", and continued: "Once I Was an Eagle, I only recently learned that you were recorded, from beginning to end, in two takes. I have always adored how each song of yours flows directly into the next, but this new piece of information only further exemplified to me how seamless and raw your highly emotionally intense narrative truly is. I remain indescribably obsessed with how you occasionally slip into the tone of spoken word and fall gracefully back into melody."

ALISON THOM: Love Letter to 'Alas I Cannot Swim'

Allison Thom of the Australian Dark-Folk group Howlite penned "Love Letter To A Record: Howlite’s Alison Thom On Laura Marling’s ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’. "Dear Alas I Cannot Swim," she wrote. "I first met you in year 10 on a burnt CD, wrapped in coloured paper and handed to me, like a drug deal, in the aisle of the school bus by my friend Melissa. Between us, Melissa and I had established something of a piracy ring of Myspace music downloads, YouTube rips and Limewire files. We were the curators of our own secret music club, dedicated to scouring the internet via dial-up for new and exciting artists. There was no band too obscure, no demo too rough, no download too painfully slow. Every few weeks we would return from our crusades and wordlessly exchange handmade cases, with meticulously handwritten notes detailing the contents."

Charlotte and the Shirt

Charlotte blogged on 'Thoughts From Another Kook' - 25/04/2010: "i really, really love it! apart from the fact that it is seriously huge. i'm not kidding, it goes almost to my knees. they had no smalls left at the stall so i went for a medium. whatever, it's clearly a dude's medium. it also says laura marling underneath the 'i speak because i can' bit, but you can't see that because i had to tuck it into my skirt, so that you could actually see my skirt. i did tell you it was huge."