The article named "Laura Marling, Once I Was An Eagle" was published on 23, May in 2013 by Neil McCormick. The article
According to the journalist Neil McCormick Laura Marling's poetic elegance reaches places others don't even get close to. It's a masterpiece.
Having read the author's opinion about Laura Marling as the singer, i can say with the confidence that she is very talented, hard-working and infused.
The author emphasizes that there is something rare and special about Laura Marling. Watching her development since her precocious debut at 17, I feel witness to the unfolding of an all-time great. She has a poetic elegance and fluid, roots musicality that scales the Olympian heights of great Seventies singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison but Marling has a uniqueness that makes comparison gauche, a coolly cerebral quality that maintains tension between her poised singing and playing and the deep, dark depths of her fierce and sensual songs. Once I Was An Eagle touches places other records don’t even get close to.
The author stresses that she has the pale demeanour and gentle tones of a folky English rose but is fiercer than that implies. There is something predatory about her, a kind of exultance in female strength.
On the album cover, Marling stretches upwards, apparently naked, echoing Where Can I Go?, on which she sings “like a woman with her clothes on / You take them off and she’s a bird”. But it is not necessarily a bird of peace. On the title track, she casts herself as eagle, and her hapless lover as dove. She plays with concepts of Ovidian transformation but in her interior world, Marling is both beast and master hunter.
According to the journalist Neil McCormick Laura Marling's poetic elegance reaches places others don't even get close to. It's a masterpiece.
Having read the author's opinion about Laura Marling as the singer, i can say with the confidence that she is very talented, hard-working and infused.
The author emphasizes that there is something rare and special about Laura Marling. Watching her development since her precocious debut at 17, I feel witness to the unfolding of an all-time great. She has a poetic elegance and fluid, roots musicality that scales the Olympian heights of great Seventies singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Van Morrison but Marling has a uniqueness that makes comparison gauche, a coolly cerebral quality that maintains tension between her poised singing and playing and the deep, dark depths of her fierce and sensual songs. Once I Was An Eagle touches places other records don’t even get close to.
The author stresses that she has the pale demeanour and gentle tones of a folky English rose but is fiercer than that implies. There is something predatory about her, a kind of exultance in female strength.
On the album cover, Marling stretches upwards, apparently naked, echoing Where Can I Go?, on which she sings “like a woman with her clothes on / You take them off and she’s a bird”. But it is not necessarily a bird of peace. On the title track, she casts herself as eagle, and her hapless lover as dove. She plays with concepts of Ovidian transformation but in her interior world, Marling is both beast and master hunter.
As for me, i like reading the articles that reveal
a personal
opinion of the journalists about the singer’s career. And if I know the work of
the journalist, I listen to his opinion and his point of view as a professional.
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Watching her development since her precocious debut at 17, I feel witness to the unfolding of an all-time great. - Whose phrase is it?
On the album cover, Marling stretches upwards, apparently naked, echoing Where Can I Go?, on which she sings “like a woman with her clothes on take them off and she’s a bird”. No periphrasis in this paragraph at all!