Laura Marling Surprise-Releases New Album: "Laura Sings Raffi"

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Laura Marling Surprise Releases New Album… of Raffi Covers

The singer-songwriter says Laura Sings Raffi marks “a logical next step” for her By Jazz Monroe June 5, 2026 Save this story Save this story

Laura Marling is back with her first album since 2024’s Patterns in Repeat , and, inevitably, it’s a 17-track collection of Raffi covers. “ Laura Sings Raffi marks a logical next step for me,” the British singer-songwriter said in a press release, “but it’s not only a desire for tolerable children’s music that landed me here.” While living in North America, she explains, she “developed a love for his sincere, dead pan renditions of both his original songs for the very young and those plucked from the canon,” even before having children of her own. Listen to the LP, which Marling self-produced at home in London, below.

The collection also includes some covers of songs that the beloved Egyptian Canadian entertainer performed but did not write, Marling notes. But all, she adds, “are delivered in homage to his style and ethos, that being not only a respect for children and his expert attendance to what entertains them, but also to his wider audience—the parents whom he has blissfully attended also. Be funny, be kind, and never patronise.”

Laura Sings Raffi : 01 Peanut Butter Sandwich 02 Baby Beluga 03 The More We Get Together 04 Mr. Sun 05 Five Little Frogs 06 Six Little Ducks 07 I Wonder If I’m Growing 08 Down by the Bay 09 One Light, One Sun 10 Robin in the Rain 11 Thanks a Lot 12 Listen to the Horses 13 Willoughby Wallaby 14 Going to the Zoo 15 Biscuits in the Oven 16 Everything Grows 17 Going on a Picnic

_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/laura-marling-surprise-releases-new-album-of-raffi-covers/)._