British singer-songwriter Laura Marling has announced the release of her new album Short Movie, to be released March 24th, 2015.

British singer-songwriter Laura Marling has announced her new album, Short Movie, to be released in March 24th, 2015, on Ribbon Music.

Marling’s new album notes a switch from acoustic guitar to electric, and Marling co-produced the album with drummer Matt Ingram and engineer Dan Cox.The album was recorded live, and Marling had the band play “blind,” or only hearing the track once before playing it, which provides a less-structured and more free flowing sound.

Short Movie is Marling’s fifth album in seven years, since she started recording when she was only seventeen. In her short time, Marling has garnered numerous awards for her music, being a nominee for the Mercury Music Prize, a two-time Brit Award nominee, winner of UK’s “Best British Female Artist,” and Best Solo Artist at the NME Awards in 2011.

After the success of her latest album Once I Was Eagle, which was ranked #20 on Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2013 list, Marling took a break from music and moved to East Los Angeles, where she tried her hand at a poetry-writing program and became a yoga instructor.

Marling spoke of her experience living anonymously in Los Angeles saying,

“Not that I’m a somebody somewhere else, but I’m very much not a somebody here, and for six months when people asked me what I did I would tell them something else. And it was nice. It was hard, but it was good. And I had nothing, I had to go on actually who I am — which I haven’t had to do for a long time, since I was 16.”

Often compared to Joni Mitchell, Marling has established herself as the premiere female artist of the folk-revival movement, all before reaching the age of twenty-five. The LA Times commented on Marling, saying,“(Once I Was An Eagle) puts her well ahead of almost any twentysomething singer-songwriter peer working today.”

Her newest album Short Movie, shows a confidence in Marling that has been growing since she emerged as a shy seventeen year old. The loose recording structure and the dominance over the recording process by Marling shows the older, more confident side of the artist.

Short Movie will be released March 24th, 2015 on Ribbon Music, and was recorded in Urchin Studios in London. The album features Ruth De Turberville on cello, Nick Pini on bass, and Tom Hobden.

Short Movie
Track 01. Warrior
Track 02. False Hope
Track 03. I Feel Your love
Track 04. Walk Alone
Track 05. Strange
Track 06. Don’t Let Me Bring You Down
Track 07. Easy
Track 08. Gurdjieffs’s Daughter
Track 09. Divine
Track 10. How Can I
Track 11. Howl
Track 12. Short Movie
Track 13. Worship Me