Canadian born, UK-based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Laura Reznek is delighted to reveal her new single ‘The Centre’ which is set for release on 12th March 2025.
The track is the latest to be taken from her sumptuous forthcoming new album The Sewing Room, set for release on 25th April 2025 via Mary Yelling Records, with Danny Cross doubling as bassist and the album’s mixing engineer, and mastering by Brock Macfarlane at CPS Mastering.
Commenting on the single, Reznek says: “‘The Centre’ is built around a relentless repetition, mirroring the cycles of influence I felt growing up. It explores the long shadow of certain family ties and the realisation that I don’t have to stay caught in their pull.”
Reznek has also today announced a run of September 2025 UK headline tour dates with support from Martha St. Arthur.
In addition, the songwriter will play a very special atmospheric album release show on 7th May 2025 at St Pancras Old Church, London, with tickets on sale now (see below for listings).
Diving into Laura Reznek's music is like being portalled — not away from oneself, but deeper within. In a world dictated by false binaries, Reznek's songwriting is a testament to the layered mosaic of our lives: the way we can be moving forward and backward in unison; the way the present is tethered to the past; the way joy and grief hold hands.
Listeners of Fiona Apple, Adrianne Lenker, and Tim Baker will feel immediately at home with Reznek's lyrical poeticism, carried by an equally impressive musical prowess. The new material draws on Reznek's strengths from her previous successes; the lyrical depth of 2021 album Agrimony can be found in the evocative lyrics and introspection, but the sound here is uniquely organic—in part because she recorded most of it solo in her bedroom in the Kentish countryside.
One of those rare musicians releasing work that feels equally personal and timeless, the Canadian-born and UK-based singer-songwriter's new album, The Sewing Room, is a testament to her roots as a multi-instrumental musician and lyrical storyteller across mediums.
Inspired by influences such as Nick Drake and Judee Sill, Reznek's latest album accomplishes what few can: it stares grief in the face without being consumed by it. Instead, hardships have a prismatic effect. From grief, Reznek finds clarity – metabolizing inevitable loss into a reminder of the precious parts of being alive.
The same brilliant storytelling on Reznek's last full-length album, Agrimony (2021), can be found here, and is as mesmerizing as ever. Her songs can quiet a room with silent awe, carried by a voice equally unflinching and vast. The Sewing Room delivers on these strengths, but the melancholy feels even sharper, rawer. Reznek casts back through the familiar figures of her past with a tender wisdom afforded only by the clearheadedness of retrospect.
At its heart, The Sewing Room asks: What does it mean to have put your trust in the wrong places? What does it mean to pull out the sutures of what you've learned and recreate your own understanding of the world?
It makes sense, then, that Reznek produced a majority of the album solo. Multi-instrumental across guitar, piano, violin, and more, Reznek has touched all parts of this album, constructing an organic landscape that is unmistakably her own. Her elevated DIY aesthetic, leaning on acoustic instruments and analogue synths, feels jarringly intimate: listeners are transported to the spare bedroom that doubles as Reznek's home studio.
Touches like her grandmother Zelda's piano gesture to Reznek's lineage, a sentimental tether to the past. Her sound is bolstered by an array of friends: cellist Sam Rowe arranged the strings, multi-tracked live in a country church in Reznek's village; Daniel Baxter on guitar; Martin Newburn on drums; with Danny Cross on bass and the album’s mixing engineer.
With the release of The Sewing Room, Reznek has bestowed us, as listeners, with an acute generosity – one that allows us to tap into the full range of emotions that come part-and-parcel with the messy truths of being human.
Laura Reznek’s new album The Sewing Room is released 25th April 2025 via Mary Yelling Records
Live Dates:
- May 07 - London - St Pancras Old Church (album launch show)
- September 16 - Birmingham - Kitchen Garden Cafe
- September 17 - Sheffield - Cafe 9
- September 18 - Newcastle - Little Buildings
- September 19 - Liverpool - Prohibition Studios