Billie Marten announces third album with opening single "Garden Of Eden"

"Garden Of Eden" is Marten's first outing of 2021, following last year's "Orange Tree" track that featured on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast album.

Speaking on the new track, Marten explains, "It’s a song of growth, and competition to evolve as individuals in an increasingly suffocating and vacuous society. I liked the idea of humans growing up like tomatoes in the greenhouse, needing water and oxygen and space, but not getting any of it. The idea of seeking the natural elements and needing only that to survive plays into my constant dichotomy of living urban or bucolic. The choruses act as a burst of relief to allow space to breathe and to express that want of living right. This was one of the first pivotal songs for me as the general sentiment breeds happiness and optimism, which is something I wasn’t particularly familiar with thus far."

Marten's new single is accompanied by a video created with Lydia Poole.

Flora Fauna will mark Marten's first album sinnce 2019's Feeding Seahorses By Hand, and was recorded with Rich Cooper in London.

Marten adds of her third album, "I wasn’t really treating myself very well, it was a bit of a disruptive time. All these songs are about getting myself out of that hole - they’re quite strong affirmations. The name Flora Fauna is like a green bath for my eyes. If the album was a painting, it would look like flora and fauna - it encompasses every organism, every corner of Earth, and a feeling of total abundance."

Tracklist:

1. Garden Of Eden
2. Creature Of Mine
3. Human Replacement
4. Liquid Love
5. Heaven
6. Ruin
7. Pigeon
8. Kill The Clown
9. Walnut
10. Aquarium