“False Hope” by Laura Marling

"False Hope" is from Short Movie, Laura Marling's fifth album, released in 2015, and it's hers from the ground up: she wrote it and produced it, with Dan Cox and Matt Ingram co-producing and recording and Michael Brauer handling the mix.

Short Movie was the record where the British singer-songwriter traded the acoustic setting of her first four albums for electric guitar, and it came the long way round. Unhappy with the songs she first wrote after Once I Was an Eagle, she put music aside for half a year once the touring was done and went digging into the spiritualist and mystical corners of Los Angeles, and that stretch fed much of what the album is about. It later earned her a Brit Awards nomination for Best Female Solo Artist.

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