Written by 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
