Laura Marling to release new album this week, listen to single ‘Held Down’

Laura Marling has decided to release her new album early, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Songs for Our Daughter was initially slated to be released mid-year, but will now arrive on Friday, April 10th via Partisan/Chrysalis.

“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,” Marling shared in a statement.

c”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 than when I wrote it.”

Marling has shared the first single off the forthcoming record, ‘Held Down’, which you can listen to below.

Marling released her last solo album, Semper Femina, in 2017. In 2018 she released a collaborative album under LUMP with Tunng’s Mike Lindsay.

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