It’s startling to hear several generations of English folk-rock manifesting in the music of one 17-year-old girl. Nick Drake’s gentle whispers, Radiohead’s trembling balladry, the Staves’ breathless sonic panoramas and the quality of Laura Marling songs — those are just a few of the musical memories wrapped up in Billie Marten’s prodigious debut album Writing Of Blues and Yellows . Before voting age, she’s already consumed a lifetime’s worth of staggeringly beautiful music and synthesized it into a sound all her own. “Where does her start go from here?” she sings on breakthrough single “Bird” We can’t wait to find out and Billie lets have a tour of the UK soon.
