My new favourite artist at the moment is Laura Marling.
I discovered her thanks to the ever influencial Triple J! Yay for nationwide radio!
Laura is from Eversly, in the UK, only 18, and her her debut LP was released only like, a month ago, but she has 2 EPs, which were released in 2007, I think.
A reason which I think draws me to her music is that it is really quite sparce, frequently it is just the vocals and guitar or piano, but it also (if I remember correctly) builds up with strings etc. She only has 2 songs on her myspace, which, with the amount most artists have nowadays is very little.
Anyway… now lets see if I can conjure up an Unearthed person… I’m sure there was one, I wrote it down the other day…. erm…. Okay, so this isn’t the one I’m thinking of (I wrote that one down on my schoolwork or something, so I haven’t the foggiest idea where the name is), but I quite like Illzilla. They’re hiphop, and Live Enough is my favourite song of theirs – I love the keys on that, just the syncopation/beats and all. The Score is also quite a good song!
Thankfully though, when it was featured on Triple J a few weeks ago, I got to hear the WHOLE album (Alas I Cannot Swim).
