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New Laura Marling Album This Week!

Stream her new single 'Held Down'

Tobias Pugh6th April 20200

Stream her new single ‘Held Down’

“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.”

Laura Marling has today announced that her new album (her seventh) ‘Song For Our Daughter’ is imminent!

Following a departure from her label and management, forming her LUMP project (with Mike Lindsay from Tunng) and getting a masters degree in psychoanalysis, the new album will have a fresh feeling of renewal, going beyond the familiar, with Laura saying “It’s the first time I’ve made a concerted effort to not just keep writing the same song again.”

We can also expect a new LUMP record this year too! “Lump gives me a totally different space,” she says, “it’s just so much easier for me to have a really differentiated persona and the outcome is such a surprise to me.”

New tour dates will be announced soon, with her previously announced dates postponed.

“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.”