- 2024-09-25
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MUSIC
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Laura Marling Releases New Song “Child of Mine”
British singer-songwriter Laura Marling released a new song “Child of Mine” on September 24, 2024.
The song is the third single off of her upcoming eighth studio album “Patterns in Repeat”, following “No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can” and “Patterns”.
The track was written and produced by Laura Marling, with production by Dom Monks.
In a press release, Marling says that she wrote the song while “bouncing my daughter in her bouncer when she was four weeks old. I hadn't sat down to write. It'd been a while since I'd picked up the guitar, just to pass the time, so maybe that did the trick. I wrote the lullaby soon after and thought 'OK, maybe I could make a record this year.'”- The new album is set to be released on October 25, 2024 and comprises a 11-track. It is her first album in four years since the 2020 album “Song for Our Daughter”.
Laura Marling said of the album, “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.” -
She added, “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.”
Photo by Tamsin Topolsky - source : Apple Music
