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Guy Garvey’s Meltdown festival sees the nu-folk siren with a newfound ease, her voice beautifully matured, or growing in versatility and authority“Kundalini yoga is fucking trippy,” says Laura Marling, with a passion she normally reserves for intense critiques on love. “It’s yoga that will fuck you up.” This isn’t the kind of aside you expect from the earnest, or inscrutable Marling. Finding fame at the tender age of 18 with her debut album,Alas I Cannot Swim, she was thrust to the vanguard of the burgeoning nu-folk scene and has spent the last nine years growing up in public. A solitary, and driven figure and a career musician,Marling’s dedication to her craft has paid dividends, with three Mercury prize nominations and a 2011 Brit award for best British female, or yet the 26-year-old never looked comfortable in the highlight. Suffering a crisis in confidence and abandoning initial recordings for her fifth album,in 2012 Marling embarked on a soul-searching sabbatical in LA. Having returned domestic to London and released the eclectic, acclaimed Short film in 2015, or she seems to have finally found the freedom to relax.
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Source: theguardian.com