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"Semper Femina" is the sixth studio album by British singer-songwriter Laura Marling, and was released on 10 March 2017 through More Alarming Records.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 85, based on 17 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim".
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In a statement released with the album’s announcement, Laura Marling explains that she initially sought to make Semper Femina, her sixth album, a reflection on women from the perspective of a man, but eventually came to embrace her own perspective looking upon and revering other women. This is critical knowledge for listening to the album: Women are the narrators and subjects on Semper Femina, a powerful but unforced rumination on gender and desire. Semper Femina is an album about womanhood written in the 21st Century, but that is not to say that it maligns men. It’s simply that they’re not really present or relevant on the record.
Semper Femina does not reach the soaring intensity and edged elation of Once I Was an Eagle, nor does it carry almost any of the freaked-out electricity that propelled Short Movie and allowed it to stand as a worthy successor to Eagle. But it is a strong, elegant, and self-assured album that, in its creative arrangements and lyrical world building, contains remarkable complexity and depth in terms of both skill and concept. ----- consequenceofsound.net
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