Laura Marling has shared a preview of her heartfelt new song ‘No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can’ from her upcoming album.
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The English singer took to her official Instagram page to share a video of her performing the song on a piano. “We grew tired of making plans that kept slipping through our hands / and if life is just a dream / I’m gonna make it mean something worth a damn / So no one’s gonna love you like I can,” Marling sang in the video over a soothing piano melody.
The snippet of the new track comes weeks after Marling released her latest song ‘Patterns‘ which served as the lead single from her forthcoming eighth studio album ‘Patterns In Repeat’. ‘No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can’ is the fourth song on the LP. You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.
Written, recorded and produced by Marling herself at her home studio in London, ‘Patterns In Repeat’ was written after the birth of her daughter in 2023 and finds the musician reflecting the patterns at play in the constellation of a family.
Previously speaking about the new album in a press release, Marling said: “Over the course of nine months, I had happily prepared myself for the fact that my life as a songwriter would be put on hold while I adjusted to life as a new parent. How delighted then was I to discover that for the first few months of a baby’s life, you can bounce them in a bouncer and play guitar all day.
“For the first time in my life, I was able to gaze into another human’s eyes as I wrote. Of course, new parents feel like they discovered that feeling – one of the very finest that life has to offer, of looking into the eyes of your child and feeling the enormity of the picture as a whole, the enormity of a precarious life, celestial, fragile and extraordinary, taking its place among the comparatively banal constellation of a family. This banal constellation seems to have dominated the writing of Patterns in Repeat – the drama of the domestic sphere, the frail threads that bind a family together, the good intentions we hold onto for our progeny and the many and various ways they get lost in time. So much complexity in the banal, the caged, the everyday.”
She continued: “Being as I am, 34 years old, now 15 years and eight albums into a life in song, I am unable to escape the fact that each record has served as a time-stamped chapter of my life (though some have appeared more a premonition). Now, here we are, following a youth spent desperately trying to understand what it is to be a woman, I am at the brow of the hill, with an entirely new and enormous perspective surrounding me.”
The new album follows her previous full-length effort, 2020’s ‘Song For Our Daughter‘ which was written figuratively, and from the perspective of writing to and about a fictional daughter.
In a five-star review of the LP, NME shared: “Album seven is a piece of a person we are familiar with. It might be less folky than her previous work, more guided by vital words than percussive rhythm, but it still feels cohesive and like a safe haven. The album is a balm, Marling a lifeline – and a source of stability. We’re lucky to have her.”
In other news, Marling has recently announced a handful of live gigs in London and New York set to commence later this year. She will play a four night run at Hackney Church in London in October and two night’s at New York’s Bowery Ballroom in November. Check out a full list of dates below and visit here to purchase London tickets and here for New York tickets.
Laura Marling 2024 UK and US tour dates are:
OCTOBER
29 – Hackney Church, London
30 – Hackney Church, London
NOVEMBER
1 – Hackney Church, London
2 – Hackney Church, London
11 – Bowery Ballroom, New York
12 – Bowery Ballroom, New York
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