Facing into the future now holding her first-born, Laura Marling’s life becomes a zoo of the new on Patterns in Repeat. Marling’s 2020 record Songs for Our Daughter has now become a prophetic album as ...

There is a precise and deliberate poetry in Laura Marling’s new record, perhaps born of a more reflective period that she has spent looking at patterns: of motherhood, of generational family dynamics ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

It's hard to make folk music in the mould of '60s/'70s singer-songwriters without sounding like mere imitation. With Halloween coming up, it would be easy for the fingerpicked nylon-string ballads of ...

Conceptually at least, it was slightly out of step with her previous albums, which tended to map the emotional chorography of her journey from teenage nu-folk ingénue to singer-songwriter of serious ...

When the pandemic began, many musicians pushed back the release of their new albums. Laura Marling chose the opposite strategy: She had been planning to release new album Song For Our Daughter in the ...