Laura Marling Returns with Her Eighth Album ‘Patterns in Repeat’, Shares New Single ‘Patterns’

This is the UK indie folk singer-songwriter’s first album in four years.

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Four years on from her last record, UK singer-songwriter Laura Marling has announced the release of her eighth studio album, Patterns in Repeat.

Written, recorded and produced by Marling in her London home studio, the album was completed after the birth of her daughter in 2023, with that experience influencing the themes of Patterns in Repeat.

Set for release on October 25 via Chrysalis/Partisan, Marling has revealed the album cover art and tracklist while also sharing the album’s first single, ‘Patterns’.

A whimsical folk ballad, the song finds Marling’s tender voice cooing “And as those years go by they’ll look upon you kindly like a friend / A pattern in repeat / And never ends” over a gentle acoustic guitar.

You can give ‘Patterns’ a listen below.

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Marling released a lengthy statement about the album and her life you can read below:

“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 eight 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.”

Patterns in Repeat is set for release on October 25 via Chrysalis/Partisan. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here. Check out the album cover art and tracklist below.

Patterns in Repeat

1. Child of Mine

2. Patterns

3. Your Girl

4. No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can

5. The Shadows

6. Interlude

7. Caroline

8. Looking Back

9. Lullaby

10. Patterns in Repeat

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