Laura Marling to release highly anticipated new album this week

Laura Marling has revealed that she is pushing forward the release of her seventh solo album, Song For Our Daughter. The follow-up to 2017's Semper Femina is now arriving this Friday, April 10 – led by first single 'Held Down', out today.

The BRIT Award winner shared the news last night during her Isolation Guitar Tutorials on Instagram.

"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," she says in a statement about the release. "It’s 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’d like for you to have it. I’d 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."

Song For Our Daughter was recorded alongside producer Ethan Johns, and features instrumentalist Rob Moose (Glen Hansard, Antony & the Johnsons, The National, Sufjan Stevens).

See the full tracklist, and listen to lead single 'Held Down', below:

01. Alexandra
02. Held Down
03. Strange Girl
04. Only The Strong
05. Blow By Blow
06. Song For Our Daughter
07. Fortune
08. The End Of The Affair
09. Hope We Meet Again
10. For You