“Clover” is the latest single from her forthcoming album, Dog Eared, out 18th July via Fiction Records. Following “Swing”,“Crown”, “Feeling,” and “Leap Year”, “Clover” is a beautifully crafted, playful tune “built of contradictions and oxymorons”. It’s another telling example of Billie’s prowess to step left of centre from the box marked ‘folk’ and into somewhere more lucid, where the likes of...
Billie Marten is pleased to share a fourth track from her forthcoming album, Dog Eared.
'Swing' is the latest single from her forthcoming album, Dog Eared, out 18thJuly via Fiction Records. Following 'Crown', 'Feeling', and 'Leap Year', the barnstorming 'Swing' finds Billie in quite scintillating form, and a song that sounds like she’s bottled the aura of her open-door studio policy in New York and...
“Cult folk favourite” (DIY) British singer-songwriter Billie Marten releases ‘Leap Year’, the third single from her forthcoming album, Dog Eared, out July 18th via Fiction Records. Following the “gorgeously graceful and head-bob catchy” (Stereogum) lead single, 'Feeling', the irrepressible 'Leap Year' was written on Leap Day in 2024 while Marten wrestled with winter malaise in bed.
Marten’s first non-autobiographical song considers a couple who can only rendezvous every four years,...
Billie Marten is pleased to announce details of her fifth album, Dog Eared, out 18th July via Fiction Records. To coincide with its announcement, Billie shares a new single, the album’s opener “Feeling”.
A full, extensive run of live dates that take in North America, the UK, Ireland and Europe are listed below, including a run of North American support shows with Tennis, and outdoor stages with...
Billie Marten has released her new record Drop Cherries on Fiction Records. To coincide with her fourth album’s release, Billie has also shared Drop Cherries: The Film, directed by Joe Wheatley. Performed live in one take in a gorgeous mid-century home in rural Nottinghamshire with musicians from the album recording, the film only amplifies the stunning intimacies of the album. Drop Cherries: The Film premiered last Thursday at Close-Up Cinema...
Billie Marten has today announced her fourth record Drop Cherries for release on 7 April. Recorded entirely on tape in Somerset and Wales late last summer, Drop Cherries marks the very first time that Billie Marten has both written and co-produced (with Dom Monks) one of her records; following critically-lauded 2021 album Flora Fauna, Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019) and Writing of Blues and Yellows (2016).
