Billie Marten has announced a new album, ‘Dog Eared’

Billie Marten has announced her fifth album ‘Dog Eared’, set for release on 18th July via Fiction Records.

The folk artist recorded the new LP at Sugar Mountain studio in New York with producer Phil Weinrobe. The album features collaborations with various musicians, including Sam Evian and Dirty Projectors’ Maia Friedman. The record follows Marten’s 2023 release ‘Drop Cherries’.

Alongside the announcement, Marten has shared the album’s opening track and lead single ‘Feeling’. Speaking about the new track, she says: “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.”