Billie Marten Announces Fifth Studio Album 'Dog Eared' And Accompanying Tour Dates
Friday, 21 March 2025
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Frances Carter
Billie Marten will release her fifth studio album this summer.
The follow-up to 2023's 'Drop Cherries' is titled 'Dog Eared' and will arrive on July 18 via Fiction Records. The British folk singer-songwriter wrote the new material while on the road, with recording sessions taking place with a group of musicians at producer Phil Weinrobe's Sugar Mountain studio in New York last summer. Weinrobe said:
"'Dog Eared' is a fucking miracle. This record feels like what music is supposed to be — a creative dialog between wide open musicians, all pushing in the exact same direction. And that direction is clear — the controls are set for the heart of Billie’s incredible songs.
"Yes, the record was recorded live. Yes, Billie sang the lead vocals as it was going down. Yes, we were huddled up in a circle — no headphones, no walls, no playback, nothing separating each person from the next, and nothing separating the performers from their performances.
"But that’s not why this record is a monument. It’s a monument because Billie walked into the studio every morning and opened her mouth and sang these incredible melodies and gorgeous lyrics without any worries or fears or desires to control the art. She was the art. And everyone surrounded her, and lifted her up, and in turn she lifted the music to heights that we are all lucky to get to listen to, on repeat, forever."
The record will include Marten's 2024 single Crown, as well as the newly shared Feeling, the bright and airy opening track. She said:
"I’ve discovered that I have a really particular long-term memory: I have specific sensory recollections from when I was two onwards, that I can recall easily now. One of these is marking out roads in my grandmother’s patterned carpet, for my Dad’s old 1950/60s toy cars to drive on. I used to trace patterns in everything: fabric seats at the dentist, carpets, wallpaper and walls, raindrops on car windows. Everything had a pattern to be noticed.
"Another strong memory is the feeling of big, warm hands when you’re a child and how comforting and safe that feels. The notion of age being so far away from you, but you know it’s a future inevitability, and that you’re on your way there. The inarticulateness of that ‘feeling’ you can’t describe yet, but you’re aware of a push in the world that you don’t yet understand.
"Feeling is really set alight by Núria Graham’s guitar part, the one you hear from the outset. It sparks the album info life and really sets a benchmark in terms of rhythm. This is an album of rhythmic focus."
Marten will support the LP with the Dog Eared Tour later this year, which features North American, UK and European dates between September and November. Tickets are on sale now.
Prior to the trek, she'll support Tennis on their North American tour this spring, before returning to the UK to join Elbow for shows in June. Tickets for those dates are on sale.
'Dog Eared' tracklist:
1. Feeling
2. Crown
3. Clover
4. No Sudden Changes
5. The Glass
6. Leap Year
7. Goodnight Moon
8. Planets
9. You and I Both
10. Swing
One of the most buzzed-about artists around right now, @BillieMarten has announced she'll be back on the road for a tour of the UK and Ireland this November!
Wed June 18 2025 - COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre
Wed November 05 2025 - DUBLIN Vicar Street
Thu November 06 2025 - BELFAST Empire Music Hall
Fri November 07 2025 - GLASGOW SWG3 - Complex
Sat November 08 2025 - NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Newcastle University Students Union
Mon November 10 2025 - NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms
Tue November 11 2025 - BRISTOL SWX
Thu November 13 2025 - MANCHESTER Manchester Academy 2
Fri November 14 2025 - LEEDS Leeds Irish Centre
Sat November 15 2025 - LONDON O2 Forum Kentish Town
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