Laura Marling shares a third track, ‘Child of Mine’, in preview of her forthcoming eighth album, Patterns in Repeat. The new record is released 25th October 2024 via Chrysalis/Partisan Records.
“Simple, graceful, moving, tender” 9/10 – Uncut Magazine
“an expert songwriter at the top of her game” – New York Times
Listen to Child of Mine HERE.
Listen to the record’s first single Patterns HERE
Watch the video for first single Patterns below
Described by Uncut as the ‘perfect primer for what follows’, the album’s opener sets an intimate tone, as Laura ‘brings to bear the full weight of what it is to be a first-time parent’.
The song was written, she explains, whilst “bouncing my daughter in her bouncer when she was four weeks old. I hadn’t sat down to write. It’d been a while since I’d picked up the guitar, just to pass the time, so maybe that did the trick. I wrote the lullaby soon after and thought ‘OK, maybe I could make a record this year’”
Patterns in Repeat was written, recorded and produced by Laura at her home studio in London. If 2020’s acclaimed Song For Our Daughter was written figuratively, and from the perspective of writing to and about a fictional daughter, Patterns in Repeat was written after the birth of her daughter in 2023, and finds Laura reflecting on the patterns at play in the constellation of a family. The songs are grounded in a very specific and revelatory time in her life, diving deeper into her reckoning with the ideas and behaviours we endure through family over generations.
The record was recorded almost entirely at Marling’s home studio and co-produced by Dom Monks, with additional assistance from strings supremo Rob Moose, and reflects not only the metaphorical intimacy of the record’s content, but purely from a circumstantial one too, with her daughter often beside Laura for these recording sessions.
Patterns in Repeat is the eighth studio album by the ever-prolific British musician, heralding the longest wait between new output in her 15-year career.
A series of intimate live residencies in London and New York sold out instantly, featuring five shows at London’s Hackney Church, and four at New York’s Bowery Ballroom in November.
Back in June, Laura launched a Substack newsletter, introducing it to fans with a note explaining its premise, “recently, I’ve been feeling the urge to talk about songwriting and my relationship to it – in a way to understand better myself – what is this thing that has been the central occupation of my adult life...” – Subscribe to Laura’s Substack here
Pre-order the album HERE
