Laura Marling The London Town EP Vinyl 7" 45 RPM Promo Only 4 Tracks
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It’s all about the music. Not about whether you can play a crowd pleaser, nor that obscure B-side; but really cut it as a musician. It’s not about the power of your amps, but the grace of your soul.
Nick Mulvey enters, carrying a guitar. His tunes are from that corner of street corner troubadours, they may also be a form of the cultural tourism that infects British music. Playing his tunes with a guitar and no band shows this up. New single ‘Nitrous’ is a crowd pleaser, but in this sparse backing it reveals it’s true origins: it’s part ‘Streets Of London’ for trustafarians, part Olive’s glowstick anthem ‘You’re Not Alone’. Several tunes follow, and it becomes impossible to tell the meaning of one from the other, apart from ‘It’s a bad scene dude’. Already receiving national airplay, it’s a mystery as to why.
Laura Marling plays the first four tracks from ‘Once I Was An Eagle’ without a break and immediately gets thunderous applause. It’s an album that I’ve lived with, a tonal poem delivered from the smoking ashes of a relationship (‘I cannot love, I want to be alone’); but intrigued by the prospect of a new one (‘Hey there new friend across the sea, if you figure things out would you figure in me?’).
Now a resident of California, the accent is still shy British girl. However, she has the power to hold a thousand people in the palm of her hand with just a guitar. She wears an antique lace dress and a pair of baseball boots, like a funky Elizabeth Bennet. Marling certainly has Austen Powers, with the voice switching from a mellifluous hum, to a high mountain howl, to a Groucho drawl for the jokes.
Her new material is so intricate; the older stuff now seems a little sketchy and silly: ‘Ghosts’ is attempted and aborted after the second verse due to arm cramp. A Townes Van Zandt cover seems not just out of place, but unnecessary. She quotes Rilke whist tuning her guitar; this is a much truer mark of the literary nature of her songs.
She leaves the stage, informing us there won’t be an encore. Laura Marling is but 23 years old, and not just a singer, but a poet and an artist absolutely true to her organismic self.
CONDITION: NEW. In thick card sleeve with plain black inner sleeve. Small center hole like an LP.
The London Town EP
Format: 7? Release date: April 9, 2007 Label: Way Out West Records Catalogno: WOW003 VERSIONS Year, Label Format2007, Way Out West Vinyl, 7? - 2007, Way Out West Promo - 7? / PROMO :
A1London Town
Recorded By – Philip Bagenal 2:19A2She's Changed Recorded By – Laura Marling 2:52
B1Failure Arranged By – Otha Smith
Engineer – Andy Aust, Neil SadlerGuitar [Additional] – Charlie Marling 3:26B2Tap At My Window Recorded By – Laura Marling 2:48
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