Laura Marling has released her new single “Child of Mine”, the track is off the UK artist’s forthcoming album Patterns in Repeat, available October 25th via Chrysalis/Partisan Records. “Child of Mine” was written, she explains, whilst “bouncing my daughter in her bouncer when she was four weeks old. I hadn’t sat down to write. It’d been a while since I’d picked up the guitar, just to pass the time, so maybe that did the trick. I wrote the lullaby soon after and thought “OK, maybe I could make a record this year”.

Patterns in Repeat is the eighth studio album by the ever-prolific British musician, heralding the longest wait between new output in her 15-year career. Marling will perform a series of intimate live residencies in London and New York sold out instantly, featuring five shows at London’s Hackney Church, and four at New York’s Bowery Ballroom in November.

Patterns in Repeat was written, recorded and produced by Laura at her home studio in London. If “Song For Our Daughter” was written figuratively, and from the perspective of writing to and about a fictional daughter, ‘Patterns in Repeat’ was written after the birth of her daughter in 2023, and finds Laura reflecting on the patterns at play in the constellation of a family. 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.

The record was recorded almost entirely at Marling’s home studio and co-produced by Dom Monks, with additional assistance from strings supremo Rob Moose, and reflects not only the metaphorical intimacy of the record’s content, but purely from a circumstantial one too, with her daughter often beside Laura for these recording sessions.

Back in June, Laura launched a Substack newsletter, introducing it to fans with a note explaining its premise, “recently, I’ve been feeling the urge to talk about songwriting and my relationship to it – in a way to understand better myself – what is this thing that has been the central occupation of my adult life…”

Laura Marling 2024-2025 Tour Dates

29th October – Hackney Church, London SOLD OUT
30th October – Hackney Church, London SOLD OUT
1st November – Hackney Church, London SOLD OUT
2nd November – Hackney Church, London (matinee) SOLD OUT
2nd November – Hackney Church, London SOLD OUT
10th November – Bowery Ballroom, New York SOLD OUT
10th November – Bowery Ballroom, New York (matinee) SOLD OUT
11th November – Bowery Ballroom, New York SOLD OUT
12th November – Bowery Ballroom, New York SOLD OUT

Pre-order Patterns in Repeat by Laura Marling HERE