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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