As much as I like the edgily strummy songs that make up about half of Once I Was An Eagle (and most of its front half), I have to admit that I prefer the ones where Marling's guitar is augmented by percussion and other - always understated - touches, as on cuts like the verging-on-tribal "Master Hunter", the more lightly lilting "Where Can I Go?" and "Once" (both brushed by organ), and especially "Pray For Me", its undulations rising and chiming in maybe the record's brightest moment. Anyway, as a whole, this is a very good album, with all kinds of depths.
(I Speak Because I Can)
(I Speak Because I Can)
