Album Review: Laura Marling, Short Movie

It’s two years since Laura Marling’s last album and 18 months since her stunning storm-wracked performance at Dublin’s Olympia — one of those turns that sucked all the air out of the room and left an entire audience weak-kneed.

What we didn’t know was that Marling was teetering on burn-out — having released four LPs in a half-decade’s frenzy of creativity. She had devoted most of her adulthood to the peripatetic life of a touring musician (she joined her first band aged 16) and was falling out of love with music.