“We are living, we keep being told, through uncertain times. Routines have been upended, each day feeling unstable and insecure. Any hint of regularity – crucially that which is enjoyable – has become essential. Enter Laura Marling’s seventh album, ‘Song For Our Daughter’. The release is something of a surprise, a burst of novelty within the new normal. Across 10 air-tight tracks, meticulously craf”
“What Song for Our Daughter lacks in experimentation it more than makes up for with its robust songwriting.”
“On her seventh outing Laura Marling offers both life lessons and much-needed escapism”
“Laura Marling’s seventh album is addressed to an imaginary daughter: it provides succour, perspective and more than a few warnings. “Sometimes the hardest thing to learn is what you get from what you lose,” she muses on Blow by Blow. The title track counsels against taking advice from “some old balding bore” in the music industry who wants her to remove her clothes. Having taken a step back from ”
“The starkly beautiful seventh album from the venerable singer-songwriter reveals more of her aged wisdom through winding narratives rich with humor and despair.”
“In the same way that a sportsperson or actor who finds fame at a prodigious age seems, after a while, to have been around forever, it’s something of a shock to be informed that Laura Marling is only just out of her twenties. That uncanniness is compounded by her seventh solo album, which frequently feels less like the work of your average millennial 30-year-old and more like that of a grande dame ”
