Laura Marling ‘I Speak Because I Can’ video

'I Speak Because I Can' is Laura Marling's coming of age album, its 10 songs imbued with a new richness, ripeness and sophistication. It is also an album marked by its quintessential Englishness. For all its American instrumentation, its shades of Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, its American producer, these songs are no pale Americana interpretation; rather they are tales deeply rooted in England.

Marling chose Ethan Johns to produce as she credits many of his earlier records (among them Ray LaMontagne, Kings of Leon, Emmylou Harris, Sarabeth Tucek) with kindling her interest in music, had long admired his way of working, his use of reels, his quiet, traditional methods of production. He gave her the space to find her own identity; the record reveals in a new maturity, and at points Marling's voice sounds a little harder, a little world-wearied.


TRACK LISTING:

01 - Devil's Spoke
02 - Made By Maid
03 - Rambling Man
04 - Blackberry Stone
05 - Alpha Shallows
06 - Goodbye England
07 - Hope In The Air
08 - What He Wrote
09 - Darkness Descends
10 - I Speak Because I Can


UK & IRELAND APRIL TOUR:

09 - Belfast - Limelight
10 - Dublin - The Academy
12 - Manchester - Lowry
13 - Glasgow - Fruitmarket
14 - Edinburgh - Queen's Hall
16 - Birmingham - Alexandra Theatre
17 - Cambridge - Corn Exchange
19 - Newcastle - Tyne Theatre
20 - York - Opera House
21 - Bristol - Colston Hall
23 - Southampton - Guildhall
25 - London - Palladium



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