Billie Marten announces details of fifth album ‘Dog Eared’ 

Cult folk favourite Billie Marten has returned with the news that she’ll be sharing her fifth full-length record, ‘Dog Eared’, on 18th July via Fiction Records. 

Since releasing her last album ‘Drop Cherries’ in 2023, the singer-songwriter has been out on the road, sowing the creative seeds of ‘Dog Eared’ in between bouts of touring. Recorded in New York last Summer with producer Phil Weinrobe at his Sugar Mountain studio, the new LP is a staunchly collaborative project - on it, Billie worked with a whole host of revered musicians, including NYC native Sam Evian and Dirty Projectors’ Maia Friedman. 

To mark the announcement, Billie’s also shared ‘Dog Eared”s lead single and opener, ‘Feeling’. Speaking on the track, she has said: “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.”

Have a listen to ‘Feeling’ below.