Laura Marling announces surprise album 'Song For Our Daughter'

Having spent the last few weeks hosting a string of Isolation Guitar Tutorials on her Instagram, Laura Marling used the opportunity over the weekend to announce the details of a surprise new album.

The new full-length 'Song For Our Daughter' will be her seventh LP to date, is being previewed by the new lead single 'Held Down', and is expected to be released this Friday 10th April via Chrysalis/Partisan.

Explaining her reasoning for bringing forward the album’s release, Laura said, “My new album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ is coming out this week, ahead of our planned schedule. In light of the change to all our circumstances, I saw no reason to hold back on something that, at the very least, might entertain, and at its best, provide some sense of union.

“It’s strange to watch the facade of our daily lives dissolve away, leaving only the essentials; those we love and our worry for them. An album, stripped of everything that modernity and ownership does to it, is essentially a piece of me, and I’d like for you to have it. I’d like for you, perhaps, to hear a strange story about the fragmentary, nonsensical experience of trauma and an enduring quest to understand what it is to be a woman in this society. When I listen back to it now, it makes more sense to me then when I wrote it. My writing, as ever, was months, years, in front of my conscious mind. It was there all along, guiding me gently through the chaos of living. And that, in itself, describes the sentiment of the album - how would I guide my daughter, arm her and prepare her for life and all of its nuance? I’m older now, old enough to have a daughter of my own, and I feel acutely the responsibility to defend The Girl. The Girl that might be lost, torn from innocence prematurely or unwittingly fragmented by forces that dominate society. I want to stand behind her and whisper in her ear all the confidences and affirmations I had found so difficult to provide myself. This album is that strange whisper; a little distorted, a little out of sequence, such is life.

“I want you to have it.”

Have a listen to the new track 'Held Down' in the player and see the album's full tracklisting below.

'Song For Our Daughter' Tracklist:
Alexandra
Held Down
Strange Girl
Only The Strong
Blow By Blow
Song For Our Daughter
Fortune
The End Of The Affair
Hope We Meet Again
For You

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