Laura Marling is again together with her first album since 2024’s Patterns in Repeat, and, inevitably, it’s a 17-track assortment of Raffi covers. “Laura Sings Raffi marks a logical subsequent step for me,” the British singer-songwriter stated in a press launch, “however it’s not solely a need for tolerable kids’s music that landed me right here.” Whereas dwelling in North America, she explains, she “developed a love for his honest, lifeless pan renditions of each his authentic songs for the very younger and people plucked from the canon,” even earlier than having kids of her personal. Take heed to the LP, which Marling self-produced at dwelling in London, under.
The gathering additionally contains some covers of songs that the beloved Egyptian Canadian entertainer carried out however didn’t write, Marling notes. However all, she provides, “are delivered in homage to his model and ethos, that being not solely a respect for youngsters and his skilled attendance to what entertains them, but additionally to his wider viewers—the mother and father whom he has blissfully attended additionally. Be humorous, be type, and by no means patronise.”
Laura Sings Raffi:
01 Peanut Butter Sandwich
02 Child Beluga
03 The Extra We Get Collectively
04 Mr. Solar
05 5 Little Frogs
06 Six Little Geese
07 I Surprise If I’m Rising
08 Down by the Bay
09 One Gentle, One Solar
10 Robin within the Rain
11 Thanks a Lot
12 Take heed to the Horses
13 Willoughby Wallaby
14 Going to the Zoo
15 Biscuits within the Oven
16 Every little thing Grows
17 Happening a Picnic
