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100
The folk singer's seventh album, a tribute to a figurative character, largely eschews percussion in favour of piercing words. It's a graceful ode to resilience.
10mo
100
Song For Our Daughter is her most measured and mature work, and perhaps the most accessible to those as yet unpersuaded.
10mo
100
With Song For Our Daughter, she joins the ranks of the world’s most extraordinary singer-songwriters.
10mo
100
From the opening strummed chords to the last hummed notes Song for our Daughter is full of Californian haze, making for a gorgeously contemplative experience.
10mo
100
More subtle than her previous works, these new songs are as fragmented and beautiful as stained glass.
10mo
100
Song For Our Daughter is, well, so uncannily, unreasonably and astutely beautiful that it meticulously sets aside every last one of your emotional checks and balances to wrap your core in a firm embrace.
9mo
90
Its this predominant facet of nature and humanity which pulses through Song For Our Daughter; dealing with other humans, listening to cautionary anecdotes, and just surviving in a world that may not always be on your side but at the very least Marling is here to offer a delicate hand of guidance.
10mo
90
With all the understated power of the record, it feels far from unkind. Instead it’s an absolute necessity.
10mo
90
What Song for Our Daughter lacks in experimentation it more than makes up for with its robust songwriting.
10mo
90
Above all there is a beautiful comfort to the record. In an anxious and uncertain period for the human race we have been given a gift that can calm and allay fears if you let it wash over you.
10mo
90
I don’t really like writing pieces or my reviews around myself, but this is the album I needed to hear in a time of great anxiety. It is peaceful and near-perfect in a way that I think many people could use right now. I think you should hear it.
10mo
90
While the initial impact of the album may feel almost “too” subtle and delicate, careful consideration of Marling’s themes and production makes this album one of this year’s best.
9mo
88
At just 36 minutes, it’s her shortest record thus far, but it’s simultaneously Marling’s most straightforward, musically simplistic record to date and her most beautiful release yet. Song For Our Daughter is comforting, serving as a warm blanket for us to hide under during this uneasy historical moment.
10mo
80
Written to an imaginary child about ‘what it is to be a woman in this society’, the singer’s seventh album is alternately intimate, sneering and sad, and lavished with gorgeous melodies.
10mo
80
‘Song For Our Daughter’ is a powerful and resounding success, and re-affirms Marling’s position as one of our most important feminist songwriters.
10mo
80
Song for Our Daughter is a touching recording, and it demonstrates that, no matter the sonic style she chooses to play with, Marling remains at the top of her game.
10mo
80
Song For Our Daughter is a return to what made her so widely admired. These are songs of undoubted depth and longevity that can provide moments of relief and solace to those in need.
10mo
80
Marling’s record is so mellifluous and listenable, in part thanks to the unobtrusive string arrangements by Bob Moose (Bon Iver, The National), that you can’t fault her for cribbing off the greats.
10mo
80
Marling finds the right variations on Song For Our Daughter, her sonically intimate seventh album.
9mo
80
That its simply stated statements resonate all the more in a quieter time go to show that Marling’s instincts to deliver this gift to our doorsteps early were perfectly timed.
9mo
80
With Song For Our Daughter, she’s making significant musical changes – adding fullness via a wide range of instruments, and a melodic pop swing, adopting a free-range approach to the possibilities of sound – and extending her conceptual reach.
9mo
80
Marling's seventh solo LP has the clarity, mastery and quiet strength of a folk-rock classic.
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8mo
80
For her most immediate, heartfelt album yet, Marling forensically explores womanhood in glorious songs.
7mo
80
If Laura Marling's Grammy-nominated standout, Semper Femina, signified a mid-career watershed, her 2020 follow-up, Song for Our Daughter, finds the Londoner moving through a subtler, though equally vital evolution replete with sharpened observations and a gripping sense of vulnerability.
7mo
80
This album is a beautiful addition to Marling’s already glowing catalogue of music.
6mo
77
Her new album, Song For Our Daughter, is the first record she has written away from the road, and the evidence is there in the sometimes homely feel and the dulled theatrical flair.
10mo
76
Song for Our Daughter brims with peaceful reflections that, even though Marling herself is just grazing her 30s, could seem like the work of an artist in their twilight years.
10mo
70
The gentle progression on show within Song For Our Daughter is rather lovely to witness, and plots Marling on an ever-improving trajectory.
10mo
70
It’s a record steeped in the pain of experience, but buoyed by hope.
10mo
70
Song For Our Daughter is another gorgeous and moving album from one of the UK’s finest songwriters, and the ideal balm for our troubled times. It’s perhaps Marling’s quietest and most cryptic release – one that asks you to spend plenty of time with it.
9mo
Without departing from the rule, Laura Marling offers us once again a new album which is characterized in the foreground by a particularly fabulous writing, supported by a warm voice and clear-sighted melodies, while the instrumentalization of folk/pop baroque chamber music is a little more discreet.
She has been delighting us with her music for more than 10 years now, with a succession of vibrant albums that all have their own peculiarities, ideas and varied themes, which has resulted in a ... read more
She has been delighting us with her music for more than 10 years now, with a succession of vibrant albums that all have their own peculiarities, ideas and varied themes, which has resulted in a ... read more
after numerous uneventful and confused listens, i finally “get”, and truly understand, Laura Marling’s newest triumph.
the songwriting is brilliant. Marling writes as if she’s ten steps ahead of the listener (which she is). she creates songs with feministic rapport, wit, understanding, and constant movement.
the final song is a fictional ode about an imaginary person. the same could be said of the rest of the album: an album for a daughter.
the consistency of this ... read more
the songwriting is brilliant. Marling writes as if she’s ten steps ahead of the listener (which she is). she creates songs with feministic rapport, wit, understanding, and constant movement.
the final song is a fictional ode about an imaginary person. the same could be said of the rest of the album: an album for a daughter.
the consistency of this ... read more
Edit : here we go again, fantano gives 9, so the user score jump. Why don't you own a taste ? Or just ... understand the album ?
Another excellent addition in Laura Marling discography, Song of our daughter may be one of her most personal album. Constructed as an open letter about her family/child about growing up, she truly shines in the songwriting department. Very beautiful.
Sonically, this is the culmination of years of work, specially from Once I was an Eagle to Semper Femina. The ... read more
Another excellent addition in Laura Marling discography, Song of our daughter may be one of her most personal album. Constructed as an open letter about her family/child about growing up, she truly shines in the songwriting department. Very beautiful.
Sonically, this is the culmination of years of work, specially from Once I was an Eagle to Semper Femina. The ... read more
For those who appreciated and enjoyed the sounds of Weyes Blood on her last album, Titanic Rising, this album strikes a similar chord from the perspective of a brilliant female singer-songwriter who has a mystical tone about her voice. However, Song For Our Daughter strikes an entirely different tone instrumentally and aesthetically. Where Weyes Blood, took her songs and made them gigantic and outlandish, Laura Marling hones in her sound and keeps the spotlight on the concept, one of which is ... read more
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1w
I hope people come around on this album... a 79 is just, too low. This is a masterpiece
7mo
Six must hears in the last ten years. The phrase "your faves could never" is thrown around a lot, but, well...
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Added on: April 5, 2020