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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.
1mo
100
Song For Our Daughter is her most measured and mature work, and perhaps the most accessible to those as yet unpersuaded.
1mo
100
With Song For Our Daughter, she joins the ranks of the world’s most extraordinary singer-songwriters.
1mo
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.
1mo
100
More subtle than her previous works, these new songs are as fragmented and beautiful as stained glass.
1mo
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.
1mo
90
With all the understated power of the record, it feels far from unkind. Instead it’s an absolute necessity.
1mo
90
What Song for Our Daughter lacks in experimentation it more than makes up for with its robust songwriting.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
80
Marling finds the right variations on Song For Our Daughter, her sonically intimate seventh album.
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.
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.
1mo
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.
1mo
70
The gentle progression on show within Song For Our Daughter is rather lovely to witness, and plots Marling on an ever-improving trajectory.
1mo
70
It’s a record steeped in the pain of experience, but buoyed by hope.
1mo
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
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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Track List
- Alexandra
- Held Down
- Strange Girl
- Only the Strong
- Blow By Blow
- Song for Our Daughter
- Fortune
- The End of the Affair
- Hope We Meet Again
- For You
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3w
I have to be one of the only people on this entire website that dislikes this album. Complete snooze-fest for me. Her voice just isn't interesting enough to carry such simplistic, and lifeless songs.
1mo
really can't get the critics hype on this one, it feels like big thief all over again
Added on: April 5, 2020