Confession. I share my birthday with Laura Marling (b. Feb 1, 1990). But I was born in a decade that was neither the 1990s nor the 80s. This makes me feel a bit unaccomplished compared to my fellow February first-er.

Especially upon the news that Miss Marling is not releasing one album this year but TWO!

I Speak Because I Can will be released March 19th, it features the beautiful, wistful Goodbye England (Covered in Snow) and the ferocious folk number Devil’s Spoke. But it seems there are more songs to come, so following Laura’s sold out tour of Australia, she’s going back to the studio with Ethan Johns to record the companion to Speak. We shall receive that later in the year.

Brand new video for Devil’s Spoke, filmed in India.

You can pre order the album now at JB Hi Fi.