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Everybody knows ‘Sophia‘. Never mind if you haven’t heard the song yet; we all know this girl. Everyone who’s ever fallen out of love has met her, hated her, wished terrible wrongs upon her. Laura Marling has found a way to voice those dark, jealous thoughts, to throw the windows open wide and let the light in on them.

The remarkable thing is that she expresses these thoughts with such eloquence. Her deceptively joyful arrangement takes the lion’s share of the credit for this. From the fingerpicking pattern whispers that open ‘Sophia’, to the brisk, impassioned pace at the heart of the song, there’s an odd comfort to how Marling makes it all so understandable.

Sophia” is taken from Laura’s forthcoming album “A Creature I Don’t Know”

Laura Marling is to tour the US and a series of UK cathedrals throughout autumn as part of the promotional duties for upcoming third studio album ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’, due for release on September 12th.

The North American 9 stop tour leg will start in San Francisco on September 17 and end at the Big Apple’s Webster Hall on the 28th.

Entitled the When The Bell Tolls Tour, the UK dates will be launched with a gig at the Exeter Cathedral on October 14th, with shows in cities such as York, Manchester, Liverpool and London following before the final leg at the Birmingham Cathedral on October 29th.

Laura Marling is to release her third studio album ‘A Creature I Don’t Know‘ on September 12th. Produced by Kings Of Leon cohort Ethan Johns, the album is the follow up to last year’s acclaimed release ‘I Speak Because I Can‘.

Taken from her eighth studio release, ‘Let England Shake‘, this track finds the chameleon-like Polly Jean Harvey adopting a different approach entirely to her previous output. Since the commercial success of her most accessible – and her least favourite – album ‘Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea‘ in 2000, Polly appears to have been increasingly resolute about never repeating herself with subsequent output. By her own admission, this particular record has been more influenced by poets and artists than musicians, and largely evokes a country in thrall to ongoing warfare and conflict.

Start your week right here as Live4ever’s music collection offers you all the weekend’s chart news, our pick of the week’s new album releases, and you can also plan your next seven days with our UK Gig Guide where you will find tickets for some of the best shows currently going on across Britain.

Muse picked up the Best British band prize at last night’s NME Awards bash, seeing off competition from Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Biffy Clyro and Kasabian at London’s Brixton Academy.

Arcade Fire emerged as winners in both categories they were nominated in at tonight’s Brits ceremony, picking up yet another award for third album ‘The Suburbs‘ ahead of the likes of Kings of Leon and Eminem, as well as coming out on top in the International Group section.

Elbow have unveiled the title of their eagerly anticipated new album, the follow up to 2008′s ‘The Seldom Seen Kid‘.

Live4ever’s Essential Listening 2010 is brought to a close today with the final part of our Albums rundown.

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