If you want an example of how a singer songwriter can grow and change artistically look no further than Laurel and her song Shells. Search You Tube and you’ll find a video of her performing it at The Cellars, a small pub venue near the sea in Breaking More Waves home city of Portsmouth. At the time it was just a gentle baby Laura Marling break-up folk song, with no hint of it transforming to a striking contemporary pop style. Now Shells is a tense cinematic piece of work that shows that sometimes great things can come out of change and those who rest on their laurels (doh!) will go nowhere.
Here’s the new video for Shells, the third track to be taken from her To The Hills Ep. It features Laurel taking a trip across the channel. It’s a bit like watching someone’s holiday footage where they’ve filmed every bit of their 2 weeks and insist on showing you it all, including the ferry crossing. However, in this case that’s fine, because it has an excellent soundtrack that makes the whole thing seem somehow deeply meaningful, rather like a French art house film where the actors stand around in coolly lit apartments, smoke cigarettes, f*ck each other and don’t say or do very much else, but it all seems so damn deep and cultured. When it probably isn’t really.
Laurel - Shells (Video)
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