Originally scheduled for release in August of this year, Laura Marling’s seventh solo album, Song For Our Daughter, was brought forward by four months, in view of the current global pandemic. Marling herself explains, “I saw no reason to hold back on something that, at the very least, might entertain and, at its best, might provide some union.” Based broadly on Maya Angelou’s book of essays, Letter To My Daughter, the songs on Laura Marling’s new album are written to an imaginary child, offering all the confidences and affirmations which she found so difficult to provide herself. Recorded in the basement studio of her London home, with the assistance of renowned producer Ethan Johns, the album sees Marling seeking to bring new perspective by writing beyond the edges of herself. In doing so, she has produced a highly assured and compelling set of songs, full of vivid imagery and with an unexpectedly high, and very welcome, proportion of melodic pop content.