FEATURE:
The Digital Mixtape
A Billie Marten Playlist
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THERE are a few reasons…
PHOTO CREDIT: Katie Silvester
why I am dedicating an entire playlist to Billie Marten. Her 2016 debut album, Writing of Blues and Yellows, is back in my mind. One of my favourite albums from the past decade, it is a gorgeous work that is in my head and swims in the heart! Billie Marten turns twenty-five in May. Someone still so young, her fourth studio album, Drop Cherries, was released last year. I think she is one of our greatest songwriters and voices. I am thinking back to 2015. In January of that year, Marten signed to Chess Club Records, a division of Sony Music and their RCA Records recording label. It was a big moment and signal that she was a very special talent. Nine years ago, this teenage artist was had recorded the 2014 Ribbon. Later in 2015, As Long As was released. Her second E.P. came out the year before that magnificent debut. I wanted to celebrate Marten signing to Chess Club Records. Also, with four albums under her belt, she has also toured the world and no doubt will be a festival fixture this summer. A remarkable artist who has this spellbinding voice that transports you somewhere incredible. I hope we get a lot more albums from the one and only Billie Marten. There is no doubt that she is…
ONE of our very best.