Billie Marten Interview
Billie Marten’s new album is her statement of purpose: Flora Fauna is an affirmation of undeniable talent and, this time, it sounds like Billie believes it too.
When ‘Garden of Eden’, Flora Fauna’s lead single, dropped in late January, it resounded like a gong signalling the return of better days. Far from the claustrophobia of lockdown, the track is an airy ode to coming into one’s own, drawing parallels between plants (flora) and humans (you guessed it, fauna). It came at a time when we were all gasping for air, impatiently waiting for sunlit days.
It also felt like Billie’s most confident work yet. Her discography up until that moment was marked by an ability to make her audience feel like a fly on the wall, weaving quiet reminders of ‘look but don’t touch’ between every other strum and vocal inflection. With Flora Fauna, Billie Marten is now inviting the listener to sit at her table and engage with the material like never before.
It’s not a usual rollout for Billie: although she’s doing press ahead of the album, most of it is done remotely, at home, in a calm and safe environment. The pre-release jitters are kicking in, but she’s keeping them in check. “I just think rumination is the deadliest killer,” she tells us, “you’re snowballing into this kind of thought puddle. It’s really hard to climb back out again because all you’ve got is your own brain. And that’s sometimes not your friend. So I’m trying more and more to just actively push those cycles away and just be more present.”
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