Billie Marten announces fourth album with lead cut "This Is How We Move"

"This Is How We Move" is Marten's first new release since her 2021 album Flora Fauna, and she says the new single is "about finding the natural rhythm and pacing between two people. Working together and flowing as one – the relationship dance. John Martyn / JJ Cale ease of recording. Double bass Nick Pini. ‘You keep the garden, and I’ll take the view, this is how we move.’ Different wants and needs, catering for each other’s happiness. DESERVING TO BE LOVED."

Drop Cherries was recorded entirely on tape in Somerset and Wales last summer, and marks the first time Marten has both written and co-produced (with Dom Monks) an album of her own.

"When I’m trying to write, the creative door is closed most of the time," she explains. "When it briefly opens, I know I’ve stumbled across moments of true emotion and insight; they give no warning and are often unpredictable. I can’t force the process, something I’m realising more with each album. And that’s why I know that Drop Cherries is a collection of songs expressing genuine intuitive feeling."

She adds of the album title, "Dropping cherries is such a strong, visceral image that I tried to channel throughout recording in Somerset and Wales, to capture the vibrancy, unpredictability, and occasional chaos one experiences within a relationship."

Tracklist:

1. New Idea
2. God Above
3. Just Us
4. I Can’t Get My Head Around You
5. Willow
6. Acid Tooth
7. Devil Swim
8. I Bend To Him
9. Nothing But Mine
10. Arrows
11. Tongue
12. This Is How We Move
13. Drop Cherries