“A preternaturally gifted folk songwriter whose voice has deepened across eight albums, from youthful nu-folk urgency to the measured intimacy of motherhood and generational reckoning.”
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Curatorial notes
Laura Beatrice Marling arrived in London at sixteen, leaving a Hampshire farm where her father ran a recording studio and taught her guitar at five. She quickly embedded herself in the nu-folk scene alongside Noah and the Whale, Mumford & Sons, and Johnny Flynn, releasing her debut Alas, I Cannot Swim in 2008 at just eighteen. Four Mercury Prize nominations followed, a Brit Award for Best British...
