Laura Marling will release her deeply personal album, Patterns in Repeat, on October 25th.
The follow-up to 2020's 'Song For Our Daughter' was written after the birth of her daughter in 2023 and “sees Laura reflecting on patterns that occur within family groups.”
The press release continues: “The song is rooted in a very specific and revelatory time in her life, digging deeper into her awareness of the thoughts and behaviors we have endured through generations of our families.”
“This follows her highly acclaimed documentation of her 'senseless traumatic experiences and persistent quest to understand what it means to be a woman in our society.'”
In a lengthy statement, the 34-year-old folk singer-songwriter said of the collection: “I was happy to expect that I would put my life as a songwriter on hold for nine months while I adjusted to life as a new parent. How I rejoiced in the first few months of my baby's life to know I could play guitar all day while rocking him in a bouncer. For the first time in my life, I was able to look someone else in the eye while writing songs. Of course, every new parent feels like they've discovered that feeling. It's one of life's greatest sensations, to look into a child's eyes and feel the magnitude of the whole picture, the grandeur of a life that is divine, fragile, extraordinary, precarious, situated in the relatively mundane constellation of a family.” This constellation of the mundane seems to dominate the writing of Patterns in Repeat. The dramas of the home, the fragile ties that hold families together, the goodwill we have for our offspring, and the various ways in which they fade over time. There are so many complexities in the mundane, the enclosed, the everyday.
“I'm 34, 15 years into singing, and eight albums into my career, but there's no escaping the fact that each record has served as a written chapter in my life (some more like premonitions). After a youth spent desperately trying to understand what it meant to be a woman, I'm now at the top of the hill, with a whole new, grand vista surrounding me.”
The lead single, “Patterns,” is out now.
Other tracks include “Child of Mine,” “Your Girl,” “No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can,” “The Shadows,” “Caroline,” “Looking Back,” “Lullaby,” and the album's title track.
Laura will support the album by performing two intimate live residencies in London and New York.
She will be based at London's Hackney Church on November 29th, 30th, 1st and 2nd. Laura will also perform two nights at New York's legendary Bowery Ballroom on November 11th and 12th.
Tickets for the live show will go on sale at 10am local time on July 19th. Pre-order “Patterns in Repeat” now from all major platforms and record stores.