Introducing: LAURA REZNEK Streams New Single ‘Endeavours’ Out Now via Mary Yelling Records
Introducing: LAURA REZNEK
Canadian UK-based Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter & Composer
Stream New Single ‘Endeavours’ Out Now via Mary Yelling Records
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Canadian born, UK-based songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Laura Reznek is delighted to reveal her new single ‘Endeavours’, set for release on 29th November 2024.
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 first look at a larger body of work coming in 2025, influences such as Nick Drake and Judee Sill ring strong on the new single as she accomplishes what few can: staring loss in the face without being consumed by it.
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.
Conjuring soundscapes through guitar, violin, analog synths, and on the piano she inherited from her patrilineal grandma, Zelda, her sound is bolstered by an array of friends: cellist Sam Rowe arranged the strings, which they multi-tracked together live in a country church in Laura's village; Daniel Baxter on guitar; Martin Newbury on drums; with Danny Cross doubling as bassist and the album’s mixing engineer, and mastering by Brock Macfarlane at CPS Mastering.
Commenting on the track, she says: “Endeavours was an ‘endeavour’ to process the un-linear-ness of grief. It is an acceptance of a new reality and an ability to look back on past events with kindness but without rose-tinted glasses; attempting to stay grounded knowing that whilst things weren’t always perfect, finding levity is still possible.”
Introduced to the violin at a young age by her classical music-loving parents, Reznek began a life-long love affair with sound. Always tinkering with some sort of instrument, she discovered songwriting, spending a lot of time alone in her bedroom listening to the greats.
With a nomadic spirit, Reznek left her hometown of Vancouver in 2015 to pursue a career across the Atlantic. Now settled in Kent, she has spent the past decade in a joyful but relentless cycle of writing, recording, collaboration, and grassroots tours that have taken her around the EU and UK many times over. In between, she helps to run a multi-use arts space in East London, and is in her fifth year working with the Vancouver chapter of Carnegie Hall’s initiative, The Lullaby Project.
Reznek released her accomplished debut album Who Came Before Us in 2014, following up with 2017 EP Now Who Owns The Night, and a string of standalone singles preceding ambitious second album Agrimony in 2021, with 2023 EP Leap Year and 2024 standalone single ‘Time In The World’ rounding out her impressive oeuvre.
Over time, her musical practice became increasingly rooted in interdisciplinary collaboration with a stubborn DIY aesthetic. This has led her to become involved in a variety of projects spanning dance, theatre, film, and podcasts. Previous projects have included the score for short films Mum’s The Word (Oz Arshad) and HIDE (James Alexandrou), podcasts Expectant (Pippa Johnstone) and Aborsh (Rachel Cairns), and play How to Kill a Chicken (Giulietta Tismenetsky).
Her compositions for dance have been performed at the National Arts Centre of Canada and Harbourfront Centre, with her music being heard on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6music, BBC Introducing, CBC (Afterdark, North by Northwest), charting on the NACC Top 20, and in film/TV including Netflix’s Tiny Pretty Things.
Reznek’s 2021 album, Agrimony, was the basis of a brand-new contemporary dance show choreographed by Sophie Dow. Premiering this past September at Vancouver’s Scotiabank Dance Centre after 6 years in the making, it was received with widespread acclaim after a sold-out run.
Across her many releases Reznek has examined themes including the passage of time, the betrayal of boredom in the midst of life-changing loss, and the ways in which we are both tied down by the histories of those who came before us, as well as responsible for the histories of those that will come after us.
Further details of new material and live dates TBA in the coming months.
