Weakness, thy name is man. I was wooed on Thursday night by a songstress named Laura Marling. You may know her as a former member of the illustrious Noah and the Whale, or as the charming woman who recorded a folk duet cover of Eminem's "Brain Damage." I now know her as my ultimate indie crush, a tiny English woman with the voice of a siren. I would never have guessed, when Marling took the stage at Club Passim, that such a small frame could produce such a voice. And perhaps that's the beauty of it.
Marling took a packed Club Passim by storm, singing a number of new songs as well as old favorites "Ghosts" and "My Manic and I." She was fairly distant as she sang, engulfed by the song and concentrating on belting out on-key notes. Between songs, however, she was warm and appreciative of the welcome she received in Boston.
Rather than do a standard encore, Marling paused after her penultimate song to announce that in order to avoid awkwardness, she would play her encore now. "If you don't want an encore," she riffed, "this is the last song. If you did want an encore, that song I just played was the last one." The audience spontaneously gave her a huge ovation, as if demanding the encore she had just announced, and Marling beautifully obliged.
Laura Marling - Ghosts (YSI) (filesavr)
Laura Marling - Brain Damage (YSI) (filesavr)
3 comments:
Wow..."Ghosts" is really fantastic. It's hard to find good, sincere indie folk anymore.
Ready to have your mind blown? She's only 19.
wow, she is breathakingly and naturaly beautiful...new romantic gave me chills, and shes 19!?! my god...im in love
reminds me of joan baez
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