Back with new album Short Movie and bound for The Olympia on May 7, Laura Marling opens up in the new issue of Hot Press.
Always an intense spirit, the folk star tells Ed Power how a move to LA for a short-lived relationship with "a boy" plunged her into an existential funk.
"I wanted to see what it would feel like to not call myself a musician," she says. "I'd never done anything else, form school on. I came around, at the end of eight months, to understanding how lucky I was to be able to do something I love. It reinvigorated me – ultimately, it was a good thing."
Rather than rebelling against her ambition, she says she was actually just straight-up knackered.
"I needed to take inventory and assess. It felt like I'd gone straight from touring and writing another album. Had I gone ahead, I would have written a record that was exactly the same as all the others. I needed to reboot – to give myself an uncomfortable experience to live through."
You'll find the interview in the current issue (Hozier cover), as she also chats abandoned albums and her privileged upbringing.
Short Movie is out Friday, April 3.

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