Reissued 180-gram LP with deluxe gatefold packaging and MP3 download code

Since her emergence onto the London music scene in 2007, Laura Marling has steadily secured her position as one of the most exciting musical talents of her generation. By the tender age of 21 she has already won a BRIT award and been nominated for the UK Mercury Music prize twice. Ribbon Music is pleased to announce deluxe re-issues of Alas I Cannot Swim and I Speak Because I Can, the latter the self-assured second album from the young British singer/songwriter, originally released in 2010. The album was produced by Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright) and featured backing vocals from Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons).

Marling, who started out, briefly but auspiciously, with a stint in the group Noah and the Whale, was a mere 16 when she independently released her first singles and almost immediately gained serious stature as a key figure on Britain's burgeoning young folk scene, alongside such artists and friends as singer/actor Johnny Flynn and Mumford & Sons. Marling's music is steeped in the British folk tradition and the ways British, Canadian and American songwriters reshaped it in the 1960s and '70s: The modal melodies, the intricate guitar patterns she plays, the pensive tone of her voice, the imagistic lyrics.

Track Listing
1. Devil's Spoke
2. Made By Maid
3. Rambling Man
4. Blackberry Stone
5. Alpha Shallows
6. Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)
7. Hope In The Air
8. What He Wrote
9. Darkness Descends
10. I Speak Because I Can