Short Movie

Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Marling's acoustic-guitar work is more impressive than ever: See 'Easy,' a fingerpicked folk reverie suggesting a stoned Joshua Tree journey." Spin - "[T]he sound of SHORT MOVIE is as fortified as Marling's voice and lyrics. 'Warrior' and 'Worship' are mostly built around the rapid-fire acoustic picking that Marling has long been synonymous with, though now it comes amidst productions as dense with reverb and strings as a Mazzy Star album..." NME (Magazine) - "[I]t plays out like a series of vignettes, of moods and moments, people and places -- but there is a sense of a journey completed, with a hard-won wisdom at the end of it." Paste (magazine) - "Marling plugs in an electric guitar (her father's old Gibson ES 335) for the first time on any of her recorded works. As a result, Short Movie is brash, choppy and more expansive than any of her previous works." Pitchfork (Website) - "[O]n SHORT MOVIE, she clutches every guitar fill like it's a long-lost piece of her identity, luxuriating in space and writing bigger and hazier songs to match." Clash (Magazine) - "Opener `Warrior' slowly emerges out of a reverb-heavy soundscape, the unsettling swirl ever-present throughout."

傑作しか出さないローラ・マーリンの5作目。もちろん今回もだが、聴いた印象が前作や前々作とだいぶ異なるのは、珍しくアレンジに幅を持たせているから。特に、削ぎ落とされた最小限の音からも凄味が伝わってきた前作に比べるとずいぶん開放的で、バンド・サウンドで歌われた曲などはロック・ファンにも支持されそう。歌自体もいつもよりリラックスしていて、彼女が新しい場所に向かって歩きはじめたことがわかる。
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