“A logical next step” Laura Marling is back with her first album since 2024’s Patterns in Repeat, an LP with a slightly younger target audience than her usual music, being a special children’s album of covers of tracks originally written/performed by Canadian singer Raffi Cavoukian. A well-loved pioneer of children’s entertainment, Raffi (as he’s mononymously known) has been a firm fixture in the lives of children (and parents) across the world since the 1980s. Self-produced by Laura at her home studio in London, the record is her interpretation of 17 of his best-known songs, including his biggest ‘hit’ ‘Baby Beluga’.
While living in North America, the British singer-songwriter developed a love for his sincere, dead pan renditions of both his original songs for the very young and those plucked from the canon, even before having children of her own.
“These covers, though not all Raffi originals, are delivered in homage to his style and ethos, that being not only a respect for children and his expert attendance to what entertains them, but also to his wider audience – the parents whom he has blissfully attended also. Be funny, be kind, and never patronise,” she explains.
The collection also includes some covers of songs that the beloved Egyptian Canadian entertainer performed but did not write, Marling notes. Out now via Laura’s own label More Alarming Records, ‘Laura Sings Raffi’ is available on CD, streaming platforms, or via YouTube (see below).
Laura Sings Raffi:
01 Peanut Butter Sandwich
02 Baby Beluga
03 The More We Get Together
04 Mr. Sun
05 Five Little Frogs
06 Six Little Ducks
07 I Wonder If I’m Growing
08 Down by the Bay
09 One Light, One Sun
10 Robin in the Rain
11 Thanks a Lot
12 Listen to the Horses
13 Willoughby Wallaby
14 Going to the Zoo
15 Biscuits in the Oven
16 Everything Grows
17 Going on a Picnic
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