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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for the British folk singer-songwriter was produced by Blake Mills.
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- Record Label: More Alarming Records
- Genre(s): Folk, Pop/Rock
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I won't forget the late September Where we danced among the midnight embers But it's going like a half-remembered dream Left and north of where we... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Positive: 29 out of 31
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Mixed: 2 out of 31
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Negative: 0 out of 31
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Mar 10, 2017Her steady output has produced some of her generation’s finest records, and her sixth, Semper Femina, is among her most affecting to date.
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Mar 1, 2017When pondering gets this skilled, and this fruitful, the dividends far outweigh the misgivings.
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Mar 13, 2017Semper Femina matches Laura Marling’s personal quest to unlock facets of her identity echoing with the wider struggle to clear a space for the feminine voice within society itself. With a triumphant new album it seems that this songwriter has found a room of her own.
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Mar 6, 2017Semper Femina continues her decade-long hot streak with another collection of finely wrought vignettes on love, loss, and the empowerment that can be found in both.
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Mar 9, 2017Having entered the limelight early, the 27-year-old singer/songwriter has now settled into a comfortable groove to on this finely honed career highlight.
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Mar 8, 2017Ms. Marling doesn’t cast herself as heroine or victim, angel or avenger. She does something trickier, and perhaps braver. Clear-eyed, calmly determined and invitingly tuneful, she captures each situation in all its ambiguity.
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MojoFeb 27, 2017Some might find the work's almost wilful-seeming opacity and slight whiff of academia off-putting. Judged on purely musical terms, however, it's a ting of great beauty. [Apr 2017, p.90]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Mar 12, 2017
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Aug 1, 2020It’s an amazing album from start to finish, mature and greatly written and produced
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Mar 18, 2017
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May 14, 2017
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Dec 29, 2017
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