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Laura Marling brings forward new album release to this week
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 6 April 2020
Laura Marling has announced that she will release new album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ this week. Originally set for release later this year, conversely to many other artists, she has decided that she would rather put it out during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a post on social media, Marling writes: “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 façade of our daily lives dissolve away, leaving only the essentials; those we love and our worry for them”, she goes on. “An album, stripped of everything that modernity and ownership does to it, is essentially a piece of me, and I’d love 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”, she continues. “When I listen back to it now, it makes more sense to me than when I wrote it … The sentiment of that album [is] how would I guide my daughter, arm her and prepare her for life and all of its nuance?”
The album will be released this Friday. Listen to new single, ‘Held Down’, here:
