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2008 has been quite a year for Laura Marling. Her debut album Alas I Cannot Swim was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and received resounding praise from critics and fans alike. With new single 'Night Terror' out this week and a nationwide tour starting on Saturday (win tickets here), Laura has picked out some of the tracks that inspire her art.

1. Magnetic Fields 'I Don't Believe You'
2. Iron and Wine 'He Lays In The Reins'
3. Avett Brothers 'Go To Sleep'
4. Microphones 'Karl Blau'
5. Adem 'Something's Going To Come'
6. Feist 'Brandy Alexander'
Video: Feist, 'Brandy Alexander'

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7. Fleet Foxes 'He Doesn't Know Why'
8. Phil Elvrum 'You'll Be In The Air'
9. Smog 'Let Me See The Colts'
10. Thanksgiving 'I Am Yours'
11. Tunng 'Bullets'
Video: Tunng, 'Bullets'

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12. Islands 'The Arm'
13. Joanna Newsom 'Peach Plum Pear'
14. Taj Mahal 'Chevrolet'
15. Langhorn Slim 'In The Midnight'
16. Paul Simon '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover'
Video: Paul Simon, '50 Ways To Leave Your Lover' (Live)

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17. Tom Waits 'Singapore'
18. Bonnie Prince Billy 'The World's Greatest'
19. Joni Mitchell 'Free Man in Paris'
20. Bob Dylan 'A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
21. Jonathan Richman 'Parties In The USA'

Previous mixtapes:

• Kaiser Chiefs
• M83
• El Guincho
• Grammatics
• Trans AM
• Duncan Lloyd
• The Walkmen
• Cut Copy
  
• Late Of The Pier
• Gabriella Cilmi
• White Denim
• Gareth Los Campesinos!
• Barry Adamson
• Muscles and Bumblebeez (Modular special edition!)
  
• Lovvers
• Sebastien Tellier
• The Maccabees
• Foals
• MSTRKRFT