Originally written by Rob Webb · 30 October 2008
2008 has been quite a year for Laura Marling. Her debut album Alas I Cannot Swim was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and received resounding praise from critics and fans alike. With new single 'Night Terror' out this week and a nationwide tour starting on Saturday (win tickets here), Laura has picked out some of the tracks that inspire her art.
• Magnetic Fields 'I Don't Believe You'
• Iron and Wine 'He Lays In The Reins'
• Avett Brothers 'Go To Sleep'
• Microphones 'Karl Blau'
• Adem 'Something's Going To Come'
• Feist 'Brandy Alexander'
• Fleet Foxes 'He Doesn't Know Why'
• Phil Elvrum 'You'll Be In The Air'
• Smog 'Let Me See The Colts'
• Thanksgiving 'I Am Yours'
• Tunng 'Bullets'
• Islands 'The Arm'
• Joanna Newsom 'Peach Plum Pear'
• Taj Mahal 'Chevrolet'
• Langhorn Slim 'In The Midnight'
• Paul Simon '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover'
• Tom Waits 'Singapore'
• Bonnie Prince Billy 'The World's Greatest'
• Joni Mitchell 'Free Man in Paris'
• Bob Dylan 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
• Jonathan Richman 'Parties In The USA'
Previous mixtapes:
• Kaiser Chiefs
• M83
• El Guincho
• Grammatics
• Trans AM
• Duncan Lloyd
• The Walkmen
• Cut Copy
• Late Of The Pier
• Gabriella Cilmi
• White Denim
• Gareth Los Campesinos!
• Barry Adamson
• Muscles and Bumblebeez (Modular special edition!)
• Lovvers
• Sebastien Tellier
• The Maccabees
• Foals
• MSTRKRFT