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Laura Marling played SXSW (pics) and NYC (video, setlist)

photos by Amanda Hatfield

Laura Marling @ Mohawk 3/19/2014 during SXSW
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In spite of the heavier tone of her new material, the electric part of the set is quite short. “We’re going to tone it down a bit,” she said, taking up her acoustic guitar for “Walk Alone,” one of Short Movie’s quieter moments, followed by “David,” whose lyric “A wasted love is a life of regret” she sings with the full-throated emotion of a wizened woman. The earlier music that she sprinkles through the set is rearranged and the phrasing adapted slightly so that new emotion is wrung out. “The Muse” and “Master Hunter” are played faster and fuller. It sounds fresh, and she seemed to be having a lot of fun performing them that way, barely pausing for breath. – [Village Voice]

UK singer-songwriter Laura Marling released her acclaimed new album, Short Movie, this week and celebrated here in NYC with a show at Warsaw on Monday (3/23) with her Domino labelmate, Villagers. You can check out the setlist and video of Short Movie‘s title track and “Gurdjieff’s Daughter” below. We caught Villagers the next night (3/24) at Union Pool.

Right before the NYC show, Marling was in Austin for SXSW and we caught her on Thursday (3/19) at Mohawk, which was rechristened House of Vans for the week. Pictures of her set there are in this post.

Laura will be back in NYC on August 3 at Town Hall (tickets). More pics of Marling at SXSW below…

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SETLIST: Laura Marling @ Warsaw 3/23/2015
False Hope
I Feel Your Love
Devil’s Spoke
The Muse
Strange
Master Hunter
Walk Alone
David
What He Wrote
Take the Night Off
I Was an Eagle
You Know
Breathe
I Speak Because I Can
Rambling Man
Gurdjieff’s Daughter
Short Movie