Feeding Seahorses By Hand, Billie Marten's new album is out today via Sony/Chess Club Records. The album comes over two years after the release of her debut album Writing of Blues and Yellows.
The album features lead single, " Betsy" which was written with friend and long-time collaborator Rich Cooper.
Billie Marten has been releasing music since she was fifteen; an age when most people are still struggling to piece together their identities bit by bit. Juggling constant traveling and packed recording schedules with A-Level revision and plotting out her own path through life was a tumultuous period. In the years since, she’s been working to unpick the whirlwind.
Her debut album Writing of Blues and Yellows arrived while the young singer was still at school, and two years later, the follow-up Feeding Seahorses By Hand is the result of unlearning everything she thought she knew previously.
After leaving school, Billie packed her bags, and left behind sleepy Yorkshire for the garish hubbub of London. Starting work in a pub and observing the never-ending conveyor belt of curious punters that propped up the bar, she gradually begun to find her feet in the capital. Her songs - originally written more as fragmented journal entries than anything else - gradually began to peer outward at the people around her. Feeding Seahorses By Hand takes a magnifying glass to the outside world, giving a fictional appraisal of Donald Trump from the perspective of his daughter on the saccharine "Cartoon People," and poking fun at unnamed politicians on "Betsy."
“I feel like I’m more awake to society than I was aged 15. That’s bound to happen,” she reasons. “This record is definitely not as much about me. It’s about my view on other people, other things.”
Recorded largely on four track tape at producer Ethan John’s house in Bath, Billie Marten dedicated every second of her time to the record over two intense but rewarding weeks. The result is an honest, imperfection-speckled album from an artist long unbothered by the idea of achieving a flawless gloss.
Billie will tour the US in May, supporting Snow Patrol and will return to UK shores for a headline tour beginning on June 5 in Birmingham and concluding on the June 13 at London’s Islington Assembly Hall.
Feeding Seahorses By Hand Tracklist:
1. Betsy
2. Mice
3. Cartoon People
4. Blue Sea, Red Sea
5. Blood Is Blue
6. Vanilla Baby
7. Toulouse
8. She Dances
9. Bad Apple
10. Boxes
11. Anda
12. Fish
Billie Marten US Tour Dates
*Supporting Snow Patrol
10/5 Paramount Theatre, Denver*
11/5 The Depot, Salt Lake City*
13/5 Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver*
14/5 Roseland Theater, Portland*
15/5 The Showbox Sodo, Seattle*
18/5 The Joint @The HardRock Hotel, LV*
20/5 Warfield Theatre, SF*
21/5 The Wiltern, LA*
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