Laura Marling Announces Eighth Studio Album 'Patterns In Repeat'
Wednesday, 10 July 2024
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Tamsin Topolski
Laura Marling has announced her eighth studio album.
The follow-up to 2020's 'Song For Our Daughter' is titled 'Patterns In Repeat' and will arrive on October 25 via Chrysalis/Partisan Records.
Penned after the birth of the singer-songwriter's daughter in 2023, and recorded and self-produced at her home studio in London, it reflects on themes of family. On the creative process, she wrote 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."
To coincide with the announcement, Marling has shared the record's first single, Patterns, which unfurls over a stripped back plucked acoustic guitar melody. Press play below.
Marling will support the LP with intimate live residencies at London's Hackney Church between October 29 and 30, and New York's Bowery Ballroom on November 11 and 12. Tickets go on general sale at 10am local time on July 19.
'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
NEW // Now THIS is going to be special.
Having just announced her new album ‘Patterns in Repeat’, the enchanting @lauramarlinghq will be heading to London's Hackney Church and New York's Bowery Ballroom for a very special run of string-accompanied residencies ✨
Tue October 29 2024 - LONDON Hackney Church
Wed October 30 2024 - LONDON Hackney Church
Fri November 01 2024 - LONDON Hackney Church
Sat November 02 2024 - LONDON Hackney Church
Mon November 11 2024 - NEW YORK New York - Bowery Ballroom (USA)
Tue November 12 2024 - NEW YORK New York - Bowery Ballroom (USA)
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