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Singled out
Laura Marling - Cross Your Fingers/Crawled Out Of The Sea
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The outrageously young Marling sounds at least three times her 18 years, with a voice that appears to have weathered all manner of heartbreak - and lyrics that betray a girl far wiser than her fresh face suggests. It’s a bit of a shame, really. Live a little, Lol! ‘Cross Your Fingers’ is one of the less sedate cuts from solid debut Alas I Cannot Swim and is paired here – as it is on the album – with the very Beirut-like ditty ‘Crawled Out Of The Sea’, all wheezing accordion and lazy croon. The voice would melt the most granite of hearts, but the songs sound unfinished. Still, we can allow her to be a rough diamond for a few more years.
The Music – Strength In Numbers
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We’ve waited almost four years for some new material from Leeds indie rockers The Music – four years in which singer Robert Harvey has reportedly faced a few demons – and from the opening note of ‘Strength In Numbers’’ onwards, there’s a sorry suspicion that the world’s moved on. Pumped up by a four-to-the-floor beat, they riff away like the baggy revivalists they are, while Harvey whines muscular, clichéd lines about “adrenalin” and “burning”. It was a surprise when they were dredging this indie dance stuff up five or six years ago, but now Kasabian and Hard-Fi have taken the dusted-down template to the top of the charts in their leaden way and spoiled it for everyone else.
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