Laura Marling is set to release her new album Patterns in Repeat — her first since becoming a parent — next month, and so far we've heard the lovely singles "Patterns" and "No One's Gonna Love You Like I Can."
Today, she's sharing "Child of Mine," the album's opening song. In a press release, Marling says she wrote the song while "bouncing my daughter in her bouncer when she was four weeks old. I hadn't sat down to write. It'd been a while since I'd picked up the guitar, just to pass the time, so maybe that did the trick. I wrote the lullaby soon after and thought 'OK, maybe I could make a record this year.'"
"Child of Mine" is unsurprisingly beautiful, coloured by a gentle choir and strings. Listen below.