Laura Marling

Intense, radiantly lovely young English neofolksinger Laura Marling plays behind her latest, A Creature I Don't Know, an album that's already been hailed as a modern classic. It's not that it sounds old, though certainly the spirits of Joni Mitchell, Julie London, PJ Harvey and Fairport Convention loom large—more that you can imagine it being played in 20 years' time, and still sounding crisp and affecting.