{"id":61341,"date":"2020-04-06T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=61341"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T10:44:40","slug":"laura-marling-announces-surprise-album-this-friday-song-for-our-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/04\/laura-marling-announces-surprise-album-this-friday-song-for-our-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Marling Announces Surprise Album This Friday: &#8216;Song For Our Daughter&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Laura Marling is very pleased to share details of a new album, \u2018Song For Our Daughter\u2019, which is set for release this coming Friday, 10th April, via Chrysalis\/Partisan. It\u2019s preceded today with the first single, \u2018Held Down\u2019.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news was revealed by Laura last night as she concluded the latest of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lauramarling\/?hl=en\">Isolation Guitar Tutorials<\/a> via Instagram. She also shared \u2018Held Down\u2019, one of the many highlights strewn throughout another magnificent Laura Marling record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Listen to \u2018Held Down\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lauramarling.lnk.to\/helddown\">here<\/a>\u00a0on all digital service providers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Held Down\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0Mgg0Wv09HVGKnfj33Zo1K?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Song For Our Daughter\u2019 was recorded alongside producer Ethan Johns, and is Laura\u2019s seventh solo album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Explaining her reasoning for bringing forward the album\u2019s release, Laura said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMy new album \u2018Song For Our Daughter\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s 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\u2019d like for you to have it. I\u2019d 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 then when I wrote it. My writing, as ever, was months, years, in front of my conscious mind. It was there all along, guiding me gently through the chaos of living. And that, in itself, describes the sentiment of the album &#8211; how would I guide my daughter, arm her and prepare her for life and all of its nuance? I\u2019m older now, old enough to have a daughter of my own, and I feel acutely the responsibility to defend The Girl. The Girl that might be lost, torn from innocence prematurely or unwittingly fragmented by forces that dominate society. I want to stand behind her and whisper in her ear all the confidences and affirmations I had found so difficult to provide myself. This album is that strange whisper; a little distorted, a little out of sequence, such is life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI want you to have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The route to this exceptional new collection of songs, &#8216;Songs For Our Daughter&#8217;, began in the wake of touring &#8216;Semper Femina&#8217;, when Laura stepped away from both her record label and her management, and for the first time in many years found herself without any firm idea of her future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead she chose the unexpected: she collaborated with the theatre director Robert Icke; she formed a duo called LUMP with Mike Lindsay from Tunng, recording and touring an album of dissonant melodic beauty. Then she enrolled in a masters degree in psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For a time she distanced herself from the idea of being Laura Marling \u2014 all of the connotations and associations her own name conjured, and began to explore something new. She realised that the songs she wrote after &#8216;Semper Femina&#8217;,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cfelt too much like similar rewritings of other ones \u2014\u00a0like a writer who\u2019ll write the same book over and over again,\u201d and pushed herself to write beyond the known edges of herself. \u201cAnd that was quite painful for me actually,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve made a concerted effort to not just keep writing the same song again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The effect of exploring beyond her familiar world \u2014\u00a0her collaborative experiments and academic studies particularly, has been to liberate her. The next twelve months will also bring a new album from LUMP, and Laura credits the experience of working with Lindsay for a new perspective on songwriting.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cLUMP gives me a totally different space,\u201d she says, \u201cit\u2019s just so much easier for me to have a really differentiated persona and the outcome is such a surprise to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Time away has also allowed her to find a new kind of settledness. After many years of touring, and time living in the US and on the south coast, she has returned to London, living one street away from her oldest sister and her niece; her middle sister shares her home; she describes herself as \u201cat a very comfortable place in my life, in a functioning long-term relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her first record written away from the road, it is perhaps this contentment that has allowed her to step away from confessional songwriting.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt\u2019s really hard for me to say, but I think that lack of \u2018I\u2019 is probably there,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m aware of being looked at, internally, by the proximity of people around me. There\u2019s a really good Henry Miller quote where towards the end of his life he stopped writing and started painting and said, \u2018I found painting to be the only medium by which I couldn\u2019t cause people harm\u2019. I was like \u2018I feel you!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laura has built herself a studio in the basement of her house, where she can spend her time enjoying \u201ca lot of experimenting with sound\u201d \u2014 in part a result of working with &#8216;Semper Femina&#8217; producer Blake Mills, who showed her \u201chow much character you can draw out of sound\u201d and of course her work with &#8216;LUMP&#8217;, where her voice is often used as an instrument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also gained considerable confidence from self-producing 2014\u2019s, &#8216;Short Movie&#8217;, and though she returned to Ethan Johns to co-produce &#8216;Song For Our Daughter&#8217;, she was steadfast in her vision for the album.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI demoed everything really heavily, and re-edited loads of stuff,\u201d she says. \u201cSo I did all of the arrangements, I knew all the musicians I wanted to work with. I mixed the record with Dom [Monks \u2014 who has engineered several Marling albums]. And all of the backing vocals on this album I did at home because I wanted no one else\u2019s opinion!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is a lusher sound than previous Laura Marling records, with broad sweeps and an abundance of strings by Rob Moose (Antony and the Johnsons, Bon Iver, the National)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI wanted to indulge in that,\u201d she says. \u201cI just wanted to let him go free.\u201d She wanted the spaciousness she had found with LUMP, \u201cwhere you\u2019re in an aural world rather than sitting watching something; or like a really great Bill Callahan album where it feels as if he\u2019s in the centre of your brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is an unexpected melodic poppiness too \u2014\u00a0there on tracks such as &#8216;Held Down&#8217;, &#8216;Blow by Blow&#8217;, and &#8216;For You&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo I was introduced to Paul McCartney at the later stage of my life,\u201d she laughs. \u201cI was Lennon. And I really only saw a surface level of Paul McCartney \u2014 dyed hair and Converses that I found unacceptable. But then I did the full catalogue of solo Paul McCartney stuff and saw I was obviously wrong. You realise the little things that get you, the little sentiments.\u201d She describes &#8216;Blow by Blow&#8217; then as, \u201cmy little homage to Paul McCartney \u2026 I was just trying to write a bit more simply and it\u2019s so much easier on the piano because I\u2019m so bad at it, I\u2019m forced to really simplify.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After several years of recalibration, this year will be another shift for Laura Marling: two new albums, (eventual) headline tours, and, one imagines, many more collaborations, experimentations and solo adventures to come.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New tour dates will be announced imminently. Laura\u2019s previously announced US, UK and European tour dates have been postponed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Marling is very pleased to share details of a new album, \u2018Song For Our Daughter\u2019, which is set for release this coming Friday, 10th April, via Chrysalis\/Partisan. 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