Seven years ago Laura Marling came on episode 19 of the podcast at a very different time in her life. As she prepares to release her 8th album, Patterns in Repeat, this month (25 Oct), she does so as a new mother, who’s trained to become a yoga teacher, who’s gained a masters in psychoanalysis, who’s formed a band called LUMP, who’s quite touring, who’s communicating directly with fans via a quite brilliant Substack newsletter about the craft of songwriting.

All of the above is covered in this week’s episode of Midnight Chats, as well as discussion about death, T.V., secretly cooking for Damon Albarn and John Paul Jones with not great results, and the beauty of a new, sparse album recorded with a baby daughter literally by your side in your living room.

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