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ALBUMTough Love - SingleFlyte & Laura Marling
Albums by Laura Marling
ALBUMAnimalLUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay
ALBUMSong For Our DaughterLaura Marling
ALBUMLUMPLUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay
ALBUMSemper Femina (Deluxe Edition)Laura Marling
ALBUMShort Movie (Director's Cut)Laura Marling
ALBUMOnce I Was an EagleLaura Marling
ALBUMA Creature I Don't KnowLaura Marling
ALBUMI Speak Because I CanLaura Marling
ALBUMAlas I Cannot SwimLaura Marling
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Soothing
Laura Marling
Young Love (feat. Laura Marling)
Mystery Jets
Curse of the Contemporary
LUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay
The Valley
Laura Marling
Animal (feat. Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay)
LUMP
Next Time
Laura Marling
Song For Our Daughter
Laura Marling
Fortune
Laura Marling
We Cannot Resist
LUMP, Laura Marling & Mike Lindsay
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Laura Marling Essentials
This critical darling makes stormy, captivating folk music.
Laura Marling: Influences
Artist Biography
British singer-songwriter Laura Marling learned to play guitar from her father, who owned a recording studio frequented by such artists as Black Sabbath and The La’s.
∙ While playing shows as part of West London’s nu-folk scene, Marling attracted the attention of Virgin Records, which signed her to a contract when she was only 16.
∙ Alas I Cannot Swim, her 2008 debut, was the first of four Marling albums to be nominated for the UK’s Mercury Prize.
∙ Beginning with 2010’s I Speak Because I Can, she’s had six consecutive Top 10 albums in the UK.
∙ Marling won top British Female Solo Artist at the 2011 BRIT Awards.
∙ Produced by Ethan Johns (Paul McCartney, Kings of Leon), Once I Was An Eagle was included among Rolling Stone’s list of the 50 Best Albums of 2013.
∙ She earned Best Folk Album Grammy nominations for 2017’s Semper Femina and 2020’s Song for Our Daughter.
Hometown
Eversley, Hampshire, England
Genre
Alternative