Laura Marling announces new album 'Patterns In Repeat'

Following on from her highly-praised 2021 LP 'Animal', Laura Marling has announced her plans for a new studio album, arriving later this year.

The new full-length 'Patterns In Repeat' is being previewed by the lead single 'Patterns', and is set to be released on the 25th October via Chrysalis/Partisan Records.

Speaking about the new offering, she said, “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.”

Have a listen to 'Patterns' in the player and see the album's full tracklisting below.

'Patterns In Repeat' Tracklist:
Child of Mine
Patterns
Your Girl
No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can
The Shadows
Interlude
Caroline
Looking Back
Lullaby
Patterns in Repeat

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