Only weeks after the fall 2011 release of Laura Marling’s third LP, A Creature I Don’t Know, the British songwriter began writing and road-testing material for her next record. Many more have showed up in setlists since, and now we know which ones made the cut, along with a preview of album track “Where Can I Go?” It turns out the first tune unveiled, “Pray For Me,” will arrive alongside 15 other songs on Once I Was An Eagle, due this May. If that album name sounds familiar, you may have caught LP4’s near-title track, “I Was An Eagle,” which was a live favorite also debuted just after her last album’s release. This set is Marling’s third record produced by longtime collaborator Ethan Johns. Hear our first taste above — a lovely folk-meets-soul cut, “Where Can I Go?” — and revisit an early radio performance of another tune with the tracklist below:
“Pray For Me” (Live on WNYC)
Once I Was An Eagle Tracklist
01. “Take The Night Of”
02. “I Was An Eagle”
03. “You Know”
04. “Breathe”
05. “Master Hunter”
06. “Little Love Caster”
07. “Devil’s Resting Place”
08. “Interlude”
09. “Undine”
10. “Where Can I Go?”
11. “Once”
12. “Pray For Me”
13. “When Were You Happy? (And How Long Has That Been)”
14. “Love Be Brave”
15. “Little Bird”
16. “Saved These Words”