Billie Marten announces new album 'Dog Eared', shares single
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Billie Marten announces new album 'Dog Eared', shares single

British singer-songwriter Billie Marten has announced her fifth album, Dog Eared, due out July 18 via Fiction Records. The record was produced by Philip Weinrobe (Adrianne Lenker, Florist, Tomberlin) and features several revered session musicians like Sam Evian and Maia Friedman.

The announcement comes with the record's second single, "Feeling", following lead single "Crown", released in October.

Marten says of the single:

“I’ve discovered that I have a really particular long-term memory: I have specific sensory recollections from when I was two onwards, that I can recall easily now. One of these is marking out roads in my grandmother’s patterned carpet, for my Dad’s old 1950/60s toy cars to drive on. I used to trace patterns in everything: fabric seats at the dentist, carpets, wallpaper and walls, raindrops on car windows. Everything had a pattern to be noticed.

“Another strong memory is the feeling of big, warm hands when you’re a child and how comforting and safe that feels. The notion of age being so far away from you, but you know it’s a future inevitability, and that you’re on your way there. The inarticulateness of that ‘feeling’ you can’t describe yet, but you’re aware of a push in the world that you don’t yet understand.

“‘Feeling’ is really set alight by Núria Graham’s guitar part, the one you hear from the outset. It sparks the album info life and really sets a benchmark in terms of rhythm. This is an album of rhythmic focus.”

Dog Eared is out July 18. Preorder here. Full tracklist below:

1. Feeling
2. Crown
3. Clover
4. No Sudden Changes
5. The Glass
6. Leap Year
7. Goodnight Moon
8. Planets
9. You and I Both
10. Swing

Billie Marten Tour Dates:

05/21 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
05/23 Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed*
05/24 Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi Annex*
05/25 Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron*
05/27 Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall*
05/30 Boston, MA @ Roadrunner*
05/31 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall*
06/01 New York, NY @ The Rooftop at Pier 17*
06/03 Washington, DC @ The Anthem*
06/05 Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz*
06/06 Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern*
06/07 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl Nashville*
06/09 Dallas, TX @ The Factory in Deep Ellum*
06/10 Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall*
06/11 Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater*
06/13 Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff Castle^
06/18 Coventry, UK @ Warwick Arts Centre
06/19 Gloucestershire, UK @ Westonbirt Arboretum^
07/03 York, UK @ York Museum Gardens^
07/05 Vilanova i la Geltrú, ES @ VIDA FESTIVAL 2025^
08/30 Darmstadt, DE @ Golden Leaves Festival*
09/08 Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
09/10 San Diego, CA @ Lou Lou's
09/11 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
09/13 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent
09/15 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
09/16 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
09/17 Vancouver, BC @ Hollywood Theatre
10/09 Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
10/10 Brussels, BE @ Botanique
10/11 Paris, FR @ Le Trabendo
10/12 Feyzin, FR @ L'Epicerie Moderne
10/15 Madrid, ES @ Teatro Lara
10/17 Zurich, CH @ Bogen F
10/18 Munich, DE @ Strom
10/19 Vienna, AT @ Flucc Wanne
10/21 Warsaw, PL @ Hybrydy
10/23 Berlin, DE @ Frannz Club
10/25 Copenhagen, DK @ Vega Small Hall
10/26 Stockholm, SE @ Nalen Klubb
10/28 Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
10/31 Hamburg, DE @ Nochtspeicher
11/01 Amsterdam, NL @ Melkweg Max
11/02 Cologne, DE @ Luxor
11/05 Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
11/06 Belfast, UK @ Empire Music Hall
11/07 Glasgow, UK @ SWG3 TV Studio
11/08 Newcastle, UK @ Newcastle University Student Union
11/10 Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
11/11 Bristol, UK @ SWX
11/13 Manchester, UK @ Academy 2
11/14 Leeds, UK @ Irish Centre
11/15 London, UK @ O2 Forum Kentish Town

* with Tennis
^ with Elbow

Leah Weinstein

Philadelphia, PA

writer, music business student, and snail mail apologist

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