Laura Marling Still Sad About Leaving Noah and the Whale: 'Carefree Days Are Gone'

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Tight-knit music scenes tend to get a bit incestuous over time. Band members start offshoot bands, others go solo yet everyone manages to make guest appearances at one another's shows. Just ask the always-shapeshifting Broken Social Scene, now on hiatus, and their countless spawns and crossovers. Something similar went down in West London a few years ago and from that we got folk artists like Mumford and Sons and Noah and the Whale, and solo singer-songwriter Laura Marling, who's inextricably tied to them both.

"We don't get to play together anymore," Marling tells Spinner. "We're all from the same tiny bit of West London. We all bump in to each other all the time, but the carefree days are gone. It's all a bit pro now."