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Semper Femina

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発売日 2017年03月10日
国内/輸入 輸入
レーベルMore Alarming Records
構成数 1
パッケージ仕様 -
規格品番 1
SKU 5060454944751

構成数 : 1枚
合計収録時間 : 00:42:15
Personnel: Laura Marling (vocals, guitar); Pete Randall , Blake Mills (guitar); Rob Moose (strings); Matt Ingram, Matt Chamberlain (drums). Audio Mixer: Greg Koller. Recording information: Berkley Sound Studios, Santa Monica; East West Studios; NRG Studios; Randall Court Studios. Arranger: Rob Moose. Semper Femina, a Latin phrase borrowed from Virgil translating roughly to "always a woman," was tattooed on Laura Marling's body long before it became the title of her sixth album. Like her adopted motto, this striking set gives the impression of a concept that was left to simmer a while before revealing itself in song. Initially intended as an exercise in writing about women from a male's perspective, Marling soon found that the feelings she was expressing were, in reality, her own, and Semper Femina became the work of a woman writing intimately about women. Crafted in her adopted home of Los Angeles and produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Jim James), it's a wonder of musical subtlety, backing off from the cinematic electric desert-scapes of 2015's Short Movie and approaching the acoustic delicacy of earlier albums from a newfound perspective. A classic confessional songwriter, the British expat has found here the perfect balance of wounded introspection and confident observation, getting to the core of the matter with poetic candor on standouts like "The Valley" and the masterful "Next Time," the latter of which is easily one of the strongest cuts of her career. As with much of Marling's work, especially during her California period, the ghost of Joni Mitchell -- another transplanted flower who bloomed in Laurel Canyon -- can be heard on the richly melodic yet beautifully sparse fingerpicked ballad "Noell." Elsewhere, Marling's bluesy half-spoken incantations propel smart slow-burners like "Wild Fire" and album-closer "Nothing Not Nearly," whose unique coda quotes Bach's iconic "Cello Suite No. 1" before literally closing the studio door and fading out to birdsong. Having entered the limelight early, the 27-year-old singer/songwriter has now settled into a comfortable groove to on this finely honed career highlight. ~ Timothy Monger

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    1. 1.
      Soothing
    2. 2.
      The Valley
    3. 3.
      Wild Fire
    4. 4.
      Don't Pass Me By
    5. 5.
      Always This Way
    6. 6.
      Wild Once
    7. 7.
      Next Time
    8. 8.
      Nouel
    9. 9.
      Nothing, Not Nearly

作品の情報

メイン
アーティスト： Laura Marling

その他
エンジニア： Greg Koller
プロデューサー： Blake Mills

商品の紹介

リリースした いずれの作品も年間ベスト上位に選ばれ、セールスは常に全英チャートのトップ10にランクインと、名実共にイギリスを代表するシンガーソングライターとなったローラ・マーリング。弱冠18才でデビューし現在26才の彼女の新作『センパー・フェミナ』は、自身のレーベルMore Alarming Recordsよりリリースされる。レコーディングは、プロデューサーにブレイク・ミルズ(アラバマ・シェイクスなど)を迎え、2015年後半にLAで行われた。本作は、前作『ショート・ムーヴィー』(2015年)リリース後のツアー中に書かれた曲が中心となっている。鋭くフレッシュな彼女の視点で捉えた女性らしさというもの、また社会がどのようにセクシャリティーやジェンダーというものをみているのか、その問いかけをしている作品である。それに関して明確な答えをむやみに出そうとするものではなく、一人の人間としての学びや成長といった自己発見の旅を詩的に紡ぎ出した作品となっている。
発売・販売元 提供資料（2017/03/08）

Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Producer Blake Mills highlights Marling's guitar while adding his own. But her own voice just grows stronger, literally and figuratively..." Uncut - "Virgil and Rilke were referenced but, as ever, the gifted singer-songwriter carried her erudition lightly." Magnet - "On SEMPER FEMINA, she complements her burnished vocals with a solid display of fingerpicking prowess marked by showers of arpeggios and bluesy notes full of sliding overtones." NME (Magazine) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "SEMPER FEMINA has an intensely personal feel....What's always shone brightest in Marling's music is her Leonard Cohen-like acuity, and that shows no sign of abating here." Paste (magazine) - "[T]he characters in Marling's songs feel like real people: often restless, frequently viewed from afar and almost uniformly mysterious in their motivations. Few songwriters have written about women quite like this." Clash (Magazine) - "[M]uch of SEMPER FEMINA finds the songwriter burrowing inwards, an analysis of femininity and womanhood with a profoundly personal edge."
Rovi

Semper Femina, a Latin phrase borrowed from Virgil translating roughly to "always a woman," was tattooed on Laura Marling's body long before it became the title of her sixth album. Like her adopted motto, this striking set gives the impression of a concept that was left to simmer a while before revealing itself in song. Initially intended as an exercise in writing about women from a male's perspective, Marling soon found that the feelings she was expressing were, in reality, her own, and Semper Femina became the work of a woman writing intimately about women. Crafted in her adopted home of Los Angeles and produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Jim James), it's a wonder of musical subtlety, backing off from the cinematic electric desert-scapes of 2015's Short Movie and approaching the acoustic delicacy of earlier albums from a newfound perspective. A classic confessional songwriter, the British expat has found here the perfect balance of wounded introspection and confident observation, getting to the core of the matter with poetic candor on standouts like "The Valley" and the masterful "Next Time," the latter of which is easily one of the strongest cuts of her career. As with much of Marling's work, especially during her California period, the ghost of Joni Mitchell -- another transplanted flower who bloomed in Laurel Canyon -- can be heard on the richly melodic yet beautifully sparse fingerpicked ballad "Noell." Elsewhere, Marling's bluesy half-spoken incantations propel smart slow-burners like "Wild Fire" and album-closer "Nothing Not Nearly," whose unique coda quotes Bach's iconic "Cello Suite No. 1" before literally closing the studio door and fading out to birdsong. Having entered the limelight early, the 27-year-old singer/songwriter has now settled into a comfortable groove to on this finely honed career highlight. ~ Timothy Monger
Rovi

バンド形態で迫った2015年の前作も良かったが、正統派のシンガー・ソングライター然とした弾き語りを軸とするこの6作目のほうが彼女らしい。軋み、揺れ、歪みも味に変えるサウンドの奥深さはどうだ。とりわけ語り掛けるような歌がルー・リードっぽい"Wild Fire"は出色。プロデューサーは、ジョン・レジェンドやジェシカ・フープなど良い仕事を連発中のブレイク・ミルズ! ラストのブーストしたギターも素晴らしい。
bounce (C)山口智男
タワーレコード（vol.401（2017年3月25日発行号）掲載）

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