The first sounds heard on Laura Marling’s eighth album ‘Patterns in Repeat’ are the murmurings of her talking with her partner as a baby coos in the background. It’s a rare direct insight into the artist’s private life since the birth of her daughter last year. Marling’s daughter is the focal point of the album. With the advent of her motherhood, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter has entered into a new contemplative phase that imbues the album with a gentler sense of lyricism, marked by her most stripped back instrumentation. Rarely is there anything more than Marling’s acoustic guitar and a l…