Photo Credit: Frances Carter

Announcing details of her fifth album, Dog Eared, out 18th July via Fiction, Billie Marten has recently returned with the brand new single Feeling. A self-reflective track centred around her memories, the track's soft palpable vocals and playful melodies give another wonderful introduction to what lays ahead on the record. Of the album’s opening number, “Feeling”, Billie explains: “I’ve discovered that I have a really particular long-term memory: I have specific sensory recollections from when I was two onwards, that I can recall easily now. One of these is marking out roads in my grandmother’s patterned carpet, for my Dad’s old 1950/60s toy cars to drive on. I used to trace patterns in everything: fabric seats at the dentist, carpets, wallpaper and walls, raindrops on car windows. Everything had a pattern to be noticed. Another strong memory is the feeling of big, warm hands when you’re a child and how comforting and safe that feels. The notion of age being so far away from you, but you know it’s a future inevitability, and that you’re on your way there. The inarticulateness of that ‘feeling’ you can’t describe yet, but you’re aware of a push in the world that you don’t yet understand.”Feeling” is really set alight by Núria Graham’s guitar part, the one you hear from the outset. It sparks the album info life and really sets a benchmark in terms of rhythm. This is an album of rhythmic focus.” Take a listen for yourselves below.

Billie Marten Live (UK DATES):

13 June - Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff Castle (w/ Elbow)
18 June - Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre (w/ Elbow)
19 June - Gloucestershire, UK @ Westonbirt Arboretum (w/ Elbow)
3 July - York, UK @ York Museum Gardens

6 November - Belfast, UK @ Empire Music Hall
7 November - Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 TV Studio
8 November - Newcastle, UK @ Newcastle University Student Union
10 November - Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
11 November - Bristol, UK @ SWX
13 November - Manchester, UK @ Academy 2
14 November - Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
15 November - London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

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