If Alas I Cannot Swim was Marling vs Fink and I Speak Because I Can was Marling vs Mumford, on A Creature I Don’t Know Laura strikes out on her own. This album doesn’t look to its contemporaries for influence…
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Laura Marling is an English singer-songwriter, originally from Eversley, Hampshire but now based in LA. Read news, reviews and interviews and find tour dates for Laura Marling on For Folk’s Sake.
Listen now | Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know
Laura Marling’s hotly-anticipated 3rd album is out on 12th September, and it’s live on the Guardian website to listen to in full. Titled A Creature I Don’t Know, it’s Laura’s first album with her own band – the Mumford boys…
News | The Leisure Society to support Laura Marling on Cathedral tour
In a dreamy turn of events, the Leisure Society have announced they will be supporting Laura Marling on her sold out Cathedral tour this autumn. The band have postponed their own headline tour, which was scheduled for October, until February. London-based fans…
News | Laura Marling seranades music lovers in awkwardness experiment
First at Glastonbury, then Camp Bestival and now at Wilderness Festival, Laura Marling has been serenading festival-goers in a series of ‘Experiments in Awkwardness’. At each festival, pairs of strangers were invited to a secret show. Steve Murphy, who was…
News | Video for Laura Marling’s Sophia revealed
Laura Marling has unveiled the video for new single Sophia. The first track to be released from her third album A Creature I Don’t Know. Both the album and the single will be released on September 12th. And Laura will…
News | Laura Marling announces UK Cathedral tour and album tracklisting
Laura Marling’s third album A Creature I Don’t Know is set for release on 12th September and she has today announced US and UK tours after its release. Marling and her band will be heading to America for the second…
Blog | Dolly Parton, Seeker Lover Keeper, Rozi Plain…
I’m on a bit of a Dolly Parton kick at the moment. It started with a late night rummage around YouTube looking for clips of her 70s TV variety show Dolly!. And has been made even stronger thanks to an…
News | Laura Marling announces third album
Great news! Laura Marling has announced details of her third album. A Creature I Don’t Know was produced by Ethan Johns, who also worked on I Speak Because I Can. It will be released on Virgin Records on 12 September.…
Festival review: Honeyfest
There’s a new contender for the UK’s loveliest small festival. Honeyfest was organised after villiagers in the Wiltshire town of Pewsey were given lottery funding to take over the running of their local pub, The Barge Inn. As well as…
News: Laura Marling to headline Cambridge Folk Festival
Laura Marling is planning a busy summer. Only yesterday we told you she would be playing at Honeyfest, and today we have news that she will headline the Cambridge Folk Festival in July. Laura will help bring proceedings to a…