I Speak Because I Can

2010 sophomore album from the British singer/songwriter. I Speak Because I Can is Laura Marling's coming of age album, it's 10 songs imbued with a new richness, ripeness and sophistication. It is also an album marked by it's quintessential Englishness. For all it's American instrumentation, it's shades of Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, it's American producer, these songs are no pale Americana interpretation; rather they are tales deeply rooted in England.