Laura Marling 今個星期五推出新大碟 Song For Our Daughter

Laura Marling 決定提早推出她第7張大碟 Song For Our Daughter，大碟將於今個星期五（4月10日）推出。這位唱作歌手於社交平台上解釋提早推出的原因是，她認為「這張作品至少可以帶給聽眾娛樂，更好是帶來某程度的團結感，所以沒有原因不推出作品。」因為大碟提早出版，所以暫時只預售 CD 及黑膠版本，並暫定再本年秋季推出更多版本，當中包括一款豪華黑膠版本。而已預購普通版本的樂迷，屆時可以用優惠價格購買新版本。

My new album ‘Song For Our Daughter’ is coming out this week, ahead of our planned schedule. 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. 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. When I listen back to it now, it makes more sense to me than when I wrote it. My writing, as ever, was months, years, in front of my conscious mind. It was there all along, guiding me gently through the chaos of living. And that, in itself, describes the sentiment of the album - how would I guide my daughter, arm her and prepare her for life and all of its nuance? I’m older now, old enough to have a daughter of my own, and I feel acutely the responsibility to defend The Girl. The Girl that might be lost, torn from innocence prematurely or unwittingly fragmented by forces that dominate society. I want to stand behind her and whisper in her ear all the confidences and affirmations I had found so difficult to provide myself. This album is that strange whisper; a little distorted, a little out of sequence, such is life. I want you to have it.