★★★★★
The "English Joni" ruthlessly dissects her love life on confessional fourth... Ever since the appearance of her debut Alas, I Cannot Swim in 2008, Laura Marling has had to get used to being compared to Joni Mitchell, a reflection on the commendable acuity and intelligence of her lyrical observations rather than any musical similarities...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-06-17
★★★★★
Once I Was an Eagle is one of those albums that you need to have gapless playback turned on for. That's honestly the most important thing you all need to know up front. Crossfade by like, 0.7 seconds if you have the option for maximum effect. There's no seams between songs. It's like a house DJ mixtape, except you do get some breaks like right after Master Hunter, and at that point you really need this. That song is bad ass...
- www.syffal.com
2013-06-12
★★★★★
????? For her fourth album, 23-year-old chanteuse Laura Marling releases her most expansive and ambitious work to date. Since her 2008 debut, critics and followers of the folk scene have branded Marling the next big thing, comparing her to songwriting giants like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. Though each of her first three releases showcased her fine vocals and deft songcraft, in Once I Was an Eagle, Marling takes some of her biggest risks...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
English folk musician Laura Marling's latest release is a living and breathing labyrinth. it's acutely self-aware of how its ends meet in all the clever ways, like its signature melody that both begins and ends matters, its familiarity veiled behind a simple mirror image. The record begins with bursts of blissful ascension, the notes within lingering in the air long after they've been played-- so that when an eerily familiar succession of notes cracks through the surface in the final song's...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
At 23 years of age, Laura Marling has released four albums, and each is better than the last. Don't misunderstand: If you want to hear Laura Marling's best songs, look elsewhere, specifically to 2011's A Creature I Don't Know. But if you want to hear a songwriter truly come into her own, change up the game, and unleash one of the most rewarding and promising folk albums--or rather, Album, with a capital A--since the heyday of the usual name-checks, it's hard to call anything other than Once I...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-06-05
★★★★★
"Take the night off and be bad for me," croons Laura Marling on the opening track of Once I Was An Eagle, starting off what can only be described as an achingly small album of epic proportions. Following the course of the emotional toil after a bad relationship, Marling, the British folk-rock darling, puts a brittle, urgent edge on the classic idea of the break-up album. Marling reportedly recorded the whole album in 10 days, taking only one day to record all of her vocals and guitar parts...
- www.cmj.com
2013-06-09
★★★★★
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by JERRICK ADAMS
It wasn't until the fourth or fifth spin of Laura Marling's fourth LP, Once I Was an Eagle, that I began to hit upon what it is that makes this a great record. I knew from the first that it was overwhelmingly strange, and that this strangeness was the key to understanding the record...
- prettymuchamazing.com
2013-06-05
★★★★★
Laura Marling has spent the first few years of her career in a state of perpetual arrival. Alas I Cannot Swim-- her 2008 debut, made when she was 18-- was a bright, brooding collection that set her up as the darling of the latest British folk revival and won her the Mercury Music Prize; on 2010's more polished I Speak Because I Can and 2011's sprawling A Creature I Don't Know, she further established herself as an ambitious artist with a widening, sharpening vision...
- pitchfork.com
2013-06-03
★★★★★
Laura Marling
Once I Was An Eagle
[Virgin; 2013]
By Ray Finlayson ; June 3, 2013
Purchase at: Insound (Vinyl) | Amazon (MP3 & CD) | iTunes | MOG
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The first real taste of Laura Marling's new album came via a short film called When Brave Bird Saved, which allowed the listener to take in the first four songs of Once I Was Eagle...
- beatsperminute.com
2013-06-04
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