Laura Marling is returning with a new album, Patterns in Repeat, which will officially arrive on October 25th via Chrysalis/Partisan Records. Today, along with the announcement, she’s released the album’s lead single, “Patterns.”

Written, recorded, and produced by Marling at her home studio in London, Patterns in Reverse will be her first full-length release since 2020’s Song for Our Daughter. That album saw her write to a fictional daughter, but now, the new album will explore themes of family following the birth of her actual daughter in 2023.

Get Laura Marling Tickets Here

Speaking about the creative process as a new parent, Marling explained that she wrote songs while bouncing her daughter in a bouncer. “For the first time in my life, I was able to gaze into another human’s eyes as I wrote,” she said, citing the feeling as “one of the very finest that life has to offer.