She's the darling of the alt-folk scene with her intimate, beautifully crafted songs about heartbreak and disappointment – it's hard to believe that Laura Marling is still only 19. The buzz about her first began two years ago when early gigs earned her comparisons to Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez. All this for a girl who at the time was so young that she was kicked out of one of her own gigs for being underage, but magical first album Alas, I Cannot Swim amazingly lived up to the hype. Her spellbinding, deceptively simple songs have helped turn the folk revival into a phenomenon.