Laura Marling performing at the 2017 Citadel Festival (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)
“They’re all based around similar chords, which is why I put them together and also they’re some my favourite songs,” Laura Marling said about the songs picked for her new video.
In one sense it’s a welcome return for Laura Marling‘s Instagram guitar tutorials, in another it’s a reminder of our return to the dark days of spring and Lockdown #1.
Either way, the mood was only an upbeat one as Marika Hackman joined Marling for run throughs of Edith Frost’s Temporary Loan, Haim‘s Hallelujah and Dolly Parton‘s Do I Ever Cross Your Mind – the first of which features on Hackman’s recently released Covers album.
Marling has also helped to bring light to a dark year with one of its standout albums, the Mercury-nominated Song For Our Daughter:
“Opener Alexandra immediately places the imaginary, although no doubt relatable, protagonist centre-stage,” our review reads.
“Marling invokes a palpable curiosity as she repeatedly harmonizes, ‘Where did Alexandra go?’, before spritely acoustic strumming underpins her now customarily sharp-witted gender role observations.”
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