Alessi's Ark: Time Travel – review

(Bella Union)As precocious as Laura Marling but endowed with a less burdened spirit (which could be why she hasn't captured the public's imagination to the same degree), 20-year-old Londoner Alessi Laurent-Marke is now on her second album of gentle musings. And what a beguiling thing it is. The 12 brief songs (five of them under two minutes long) reveal a talent that's on the verge of becoming something special. Laurent-Marke consistently errs on the side of understatement, and it takes several...

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