Laura Marling announces new album, Patterns In Repeat

Laura Marling has announced a new album. On October 25, the singer/songwriter will release Patterns In Repeat, her eighth album, via Partisan Records. Today she’s released the first single, “Patterns.” Hear it below.

Marling said in a statement, “Over the course of nine months, I had happily prepared myself for the fact that my life as a songwriter would be put on hold while I adjusted to life as a new parent. How delighted then was I to discover that for the first few months of a baby’s life, you can bounce them in a bouncer and play guitar all day. For the first time in my life, I was able to gaze into another human’s eyes as I wrote. Of course, new parents feel like they discovered that feeling – one of the very finest that life has to offer, of looking into the eyes of your child and feeling the enormity of the picture as a whole, the enormity of a precarious life, celestial, fragile and extraordinary, taking its place among the comparatively banal constellation of a family. This banal constellation seems to have dominated the writing of Patterns in Repeat – the drama of the domestic sphere, the frail threads that bind a family together, the good intentions we hold onto for our progeny and the many and various ways they get lost in time. So much complexity in the banal, the caged, the everyday.

“Being as I am, 34 years old, now 15 years and 8 albums into a life in song, I am unable to escape the fact that each record has served as a time-stamped chapter of my life (though some have appeared more a premonition). Now, here we are, following a youth spent desperately trying to understand what it is to be a woman, I am at the brow of the hill, with an entirely new and enormous perspective surrounding me.”

Laura Marling’s Once I Was An Eagle is featured on our list, A History of Indie Folk in 45 Albums.

Laura Marling Patterns In Repeat tracklist:

1. Child of Mine
2. Patterns
3. Your Girl
4. No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can
5. The Shadows
6. Interlude
7. Caroline
8. Looking Back
9. Lullaby
10. Patterns in Repeat

Laura Marling live dates:

29th October – Hackney Church, London
30th October – Hackney Church, London
1st November – Hackney Church, London
2nd November – Hackney Church, London
11th November – Bowery Ballroom, New York
12th November – Bowery Ballroom, New York

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