Speaking with presenter Jack Saunders on the show, the singer said: “The idea behind it is, lyrically, I just pictured post-apocalyptic, Earth-is-dying… really, really positive stuff! And you get to pick one thing to go and leave it with, and sometimes it may not be the thing that you thought it was or the person that you thought you would leave Earth with. And that was the idea that I was going with.”

The single was accompanied by a music video. In the ethereal video, Marten travels through a forest and across a lake in a Victorian-style dress, making her way towards a mysterious green light. The video was directed by Joe Wheatley, who has also directed for bands TV Priest and Do Nothing.

The singer posted on Instagram: “We made a video of whimsical canoeing for you to accompany COM, and we are really really proud of it. Thank you especially to the carp fishermen who helped me in and out the pond.”

The artist, real name Isabella Sophie Tweddle, shot to fame after a cover song she performed was posted on YouTube and quickly gained thousands of views. She released her first single Ribbon in 2014, was she was just fourteen years old. She has produced two albums – Writing of Blues and Yellows and Feeding Seahorses by Hand – and was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016.

Marten will be touring the UK in September 2021, and is due to perform in Leeds, Glasgow, London, Leicester, Sheffield, Oxford, Birmingham, Cambridge and Manchester. Tickets go on sale on Friday 9th April.

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‘Flora and Fauna’, Marten’s upcoming album succeeds her previous album ‘Feeding Seahorses By Hand’ which was released in 2019. Marten released the music video for the first single ‘Garden Of Eden’ off ‘Flora and Fauna’ on the 28th of January. Marten made the music video with Lydia Poole, and in it demonstrates a varied collections of vignettes shot across the covid-19 lockdowns last year. Watch the music video down below:

Marten said of ‘Garden of Eden’, “It’s a song of growth, and competition to evolve as individuals in an increasingly suffocating and vacuous society. I liked the idea of humans growing up like tomatoes in the greenhouse, needing water and oxygen and space, but not getting any of it. The idea of seeking the natural elements and needing only that to survive plays into my constant dichotomy of living urban or bucolic. The choruses act as a burst of relief to allow space to breathe and to express that want of living right. This was one of the first pivotal songs for me as the general sentiment breeds happiness and optimism, which is something I wasn’t particularly familiar with thus far.”

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‘Flora and Fauna’ is set to release on the 21st of May. Marten released ‘Flora and Fauna’s’ artwork and the track-list, which includes:

1. Garden Of Eden
2. Creature Of Mine
3. Human Replacement
4. Liquid Love
5. Heaven
6. Ruin
7. Pigeon
8. Kill The Clown
9. Walnut
10. Aquarium