Billie Marten: 2026

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When Billie Marten's 2016 debut album, Writing of Blues and Yellow, was released, the Ripon, North Yorkshire singer, songwriter, and guitarist was lauded as a 17-year-old prodigy, an artistwho eloquently captured her internal dialogue and experiences with a wistful kind of wisdom. Over the last decade, Marten's craft has only become stronger, buoyed by her confidence and voracious exploration of her craft.

Her fifth album, 2025's Dog Eared, was recorded in Brooklyn with Phil Weinrobe at Sugar Mountain Studios. Weinrobe has worked with Adrianne Lenker and Cass McCombs, and on Dog Eared, Billie and ten musicians and peers leaned into the adventure of discovery in the studio, taking bold chances (and braving the suffocating heat of summertime New York City).

Marten's American sojourn, and where she finds herself at nearly 27, is all beautifully realized on Dog Eared's smart, incisive songs, three of which she played, accompanied by Katie Martucic and Andrew Maguire, in this FUV Live session recorded at The Bitter End: "Feeling," "Crown" and "Planets."

Marten and I also talked about her love of books (particularly Henry David Thoreau's On Man and Nature), bookstores, and a family favorite, Loudon Wainwright III, as well as the cyclical, life-shifting Saturn return that's drawing closer.

[Recorded: 12/3/25. Engineered by Jim O'Hara. Produced by Meghan Suma. Videographers: Alena Godas, Adithi Vimalanathan, Olivia Iannaccone, and Gina Slavin.]