With two gold-certified, Mercury Prize-nominated albums and a Brit Award for Best Female Solo Artist in the bag, Laura Marling is a rare proposition: an artist who’s matched critical acclaim with commercial success. Of course, what makes her truly exceptional is the fact she’d achieved all of that before her 21st birthday. It’s little wonder, then, that on A Creature I Don’t Know, England’s finest female folkie’s sounding more assured than ever, her gorgeous, Joni Mitchell-esque voice soaring and swooping, and her confident song writing seamlessly incorporating influences from jazz, blues and country. Marling’s come of age in spectacular style.