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10.0
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Daily Telegraph
Passionate sequence of songs expressing all the wildness and wisdom of a 20 year-old “feeling the weight of womanhood”
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10.0
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The Guardian
Her first triumph: a collection of literary and emotional songs to have you whooping with joy or fighting off tears, with tunes that deliver new riches with each listen
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10.0
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The Times
The singer who two years ago said that Joni Mitchell’s Court & Spark was her favourite album has just delivered an album that stands comparison to that high-water mark. And she’s still only 20
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10.0
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The Irish Times
Difficult second album? No, ma’am.. Like the proverbial wine, Marling just gets better with age
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9.0
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Clash
A remarkable record; you’ll want to play little else
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
An album of elegance and brilliance
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9.0
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The Fly
With anyone else, you’d label this their coming-of-age record. For Marling, we should’ve expected nothing less. Stunning
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9.0
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God Is In The TV
There is no way that this won't make it onto every journalists album of the year list come the end of 2010. It will make it onto mine, that is for sure
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8.1
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Pitchfork
To say Marling evinces wisdom beyond her years on I Speak would be a criminal understatement, considering she's created a haunting, fully flowered gem of an album
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8.0
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Blurt
Its 10 tracks are remarkably rendered; combining a darker sound and more raw emotion from the singer this time around, with an added sophistication and a youthful vim driving it onwards
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8.0
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Q
Print edition only
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8.0
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Mojo
Print edition only
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8.0
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The Music Fix
With this album Laura Marling has shown that she can stand shoulder to shoulder with the very best
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8.0
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NME
Marks a slightly rootsier direction for Marling
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8.0
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The Independent
It's full of songs which twist and turn as you listen
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8.0
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Evening Standard
10 songs of great intensity and seriousness of purpose... Greatness awaits
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8.0
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Independent on Sunday
Marling is genuinely original, and in a pop market saturated with singer-songwriting mediocrity, she is to be treasured
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8.0
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State
An album designed to be experienced and enjoyed on an intimate level. Laura Marling has worked to create something quite magnificent
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8.0
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Rave Magazine
Marling steps out of the murky background of anonymous singer-songwriters and becomes a genuinely intriguing presence.
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8.0
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FasterLouder
A beautiful album, drawing heavily on the English folk tradition, particularly in some of the images that Marling evokes
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8.0
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Blurt
Marling's self-assured, lyrically gripping performances knit even its most diverse parts together, so that I Speak, for all its variety, hangs together admirably well
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7.4
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onethirtybpm
It sounds like she’s letting the past drift away on a refreshing seaside wind, like a kite cut from its string
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7.0
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Spin
Her stormy folk songs are primal and dark, crammed with ancient mythology and portentous warnings
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7.0
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The Observer
Marling remains a frustratingly polite songwriter, rather than one who really skewers you through the solar plexus. She is good but not yet truly great
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7.0
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Pop Matters
When Marling tempers her mannerisms and finds the right balance between mature production and folky sparseness, all the mandolins and dulcimers in the folk canon will be hers
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6.0
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Uncut
She just needs a set of songs that are as compelling as her voice
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6.0
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The Skinny
Whilst there may be the distinct feeling that you’re being guide-dog led towards a particular emotive response, sometimes it’s nice to just submit
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6.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Despite this maturity and the lightness of touch present throughout there is a nagging feeling throughout that Marling feels she has something to prove and can’t truly relax
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6.0
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The Quietus
An accomplished record, but that’s it problem. The clever instrumentation feels self-consciously ragged and loose, and overall this is an overly safe step
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