In the meantime, stream Time Travel in its entirety on the Alessi’s Ark Facebook page, before its US release Sept. 27.
Haw River, NC (August 17, 2011) – British songwriter Alessi’s Ark will support Laura Marling on her fall US tour. Alessi’s album Time Travel will be released 9/13 via Bella Union.
Stream Time Travel in its entirety here:
Having been associated with Marling for quite some time via their mutual involvement in the Sunday evening London “Communion” gigs organized by Mumford & Sons’ Ben Lovett, Alessi and Marling will bring the US version of their successful European run to the United States for a string of major-market dates.
While Mumford’s success is certainly the sun around which the artists in this particular London scene have continued to orbit, in the past several years Alessi’s Ark, Marling, Noah and the Whale, Peggy Sue, The Vaccines and several other artists whose teeth were cut in the scene have blasted off successful careers of their own, spreading the inclusiveness and songwriting-centric ethos of Lovett’s informal collective.
Alessi Laurent-Marke’s debut US full-length release Time Travel has been obsessively hailed in the UK. It will be released in the US on September 27th on Bella Union Records. Standout tracks “Wire,” “On the Plains” and her imaginative rendering of Lesley Gore’s “Maybe I Know” stand out on an album of breathy, soulful folk.
“A precious mix of childlike insouciance and adolescent anxiety… the songs have a deftness that defies her years” NME – 8/10
“Reverb-laden memoirs such as Blanket and Stalemate mine a rich source of melodic fuel… The understated arrangements suggest you’re listening to a woman with impeccable taste, while her exquisitely resigned cover of Lesley Gore’s Maybe I Know confirms it” MOJO – 4 Stars ****
“As precocious as Laura Marling, the 12 songs reveal a talent that’s on the verge of becoming something special… Beautiful and beguiling, the album gets under your skin” The Guardian – 4 Stars ****
Alessi’s Ark on Tour (supporting Laura Marling on all dates)
9/17 San Francisco Bimbos 265
9/18 San Francisco Masonic Temple
9/20 Los Angeles The Troubadour
9/22 Chicago Lincoln Hall
9/23 Toronto The Great Hall
9/24 Montreal Corona
9/25 Boston Brighton Music Hall
9/27 Washington DC Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
9/28 NYC Webster Hall
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