Laura Marling's 'Patterns in Repeat' Unites Greenwich Village and Greenwich, London

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Laura Marling's Patterns in Repeat to sound like a costume.

And yet, these tender tributes to motherhood are more classic than plagiaristic — a song like "Caroline" ably following in the footsteps of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne," sounding like it could have been written anytime between 1967 and 2024, in Greenwich Village or Greenwich, London. Patterns in Repeat indeed.

(Chrysalis Records)