That’s it from us for our first week back and we leave you dear reader with a track which 6 Music has been playing to death this last few weeks and not without good reason – apparently it had the working title of ‘La la, something…Caroline?’ but then became just ‘Caroline’ and what a beautiful song it is. It’s taken from the album “Patters in Repeat” which we reviewed back in November, commenting: “Now freed by parenthood, Marling has been able to shift the narrative subject matter, less self-centred, resulting in an album that feels consequently more inclusive, with greater poetic clarity, and though the sparseness of the arrangement may imply a perceived simplicity, in truth the album continues to reveal with each repeated listen and confidentially sits as her finest offering to date.”
Please do support your local Palestine action this weekend if you can as people in Gaza face their third calendar year of unimaginable horrors. Take care everyone and have a good one.
Marling's eighth studio album is a deceptively simplistic offering that permeates a sense of contentment throughout. Laura Marling began work on "Pattern In Repeat", shortly after the birth of her daughter, and first child, back in February 2023. This seismic change to her world lies at the very heart of…
Surely one of the best singer-songwriters of her generation, four time Mercury Music Prize nominee Laura Marling just goes from strength to strength. As we await the release of Marling's eighth solo studio album "Patterns in Repeat", the songs released so far to preview that opus suggest another release packed…
The seventh solo album by English singer-songwriter Laura Marling was released earlier than planned to provide “something that, at the very least, might entertain, and at its best, provide some sense of union” in these uncertain times. It is notionally written to her imaginary daughter (or younger self) – effectively…
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