Laura Marling will release the deeply personal album, 'Patterns in Repeat', on October 25. The follow-up to 2020's 'Song For Our Daughter' was penned after the birth of her little girl in 2023, and "finds Laura reflecting on the patterns at play in the constellation of a family." A press release continues: "The songs are grounded in a very specific and revelatory time in her life, diving deeper into her reckoning with the ideas and behaviours we endure through family over generations.
"It follows on from her acclaimed record about the "nonsensical experience of trauma and an enduring quest to understand what it is to be a woman in this society." In a lengthy statement, the 34-year-old folk singer-songwriter said of the collection: “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 bana.