Laura Marling premieres new track ‘False Hope’

With anticipation building for her fifth studio album ‘Short Movie’, Laura Marling has revealed a second new track on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show. It’s a soaring, cinematic fare, steeped in drama, and it was written in America as high winds tore through New York.

“I wrote [‘False Hope’] shortly after a trip to Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy, which was quite an experience,” explains Laura Marling, talking to Zane Lowe on his Radio 1 show. “So it’s related to that - [it was] nearly post-apocalyptic. I was in quite a transient place in a foreign country.”

When asked if ‘False Hope’ paints an accurate picture of the overall sound on ‘Short Movie’, Marling said, “[‘False Hope’] is a more extreme example. I wanted it to feel like discordant noise in car-based cities. It’s using a completely new palate - it felt right for the songs, to get a bit more experimental.”