Been listening to Laura Marling's I Speak Because I Can.   The genre tag for the record states Alternative & Punk but don't think that quite fits the bill. More like dramatic folk.  Most of it is pretty damn serious, pretty damn somber. Ironically "Darkness Descends"  is the most upbeat track on the record.  Kinda dig that track especially once it kicks in. "Devil's Spoke" is pretty tight too.  A bit of an accent permeates through her husky tenor.  A lot of it seems to be a break-up record of sorts; that's a read on it.  The lyrics aren't cryptic: "I miss his smell..."  "I wrote an epic letter to him..." "And he blames me for every wrong ever he made..." "oh give me to a rambling man..."  you git the idear.

Here's an exclusive pic from of Laura on stage at Sasquatch 2010 :

photo by Adam Forslund