LAURA REZNEK Releases New Single ‘The Centre’
Watch the lyric video - HERE
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Announces September 2025 UK Headline Tour Dates
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UK-based Canadian Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter & Composer’s New Album The Sewing Room Released 25th April 2025 via Mary Yelling Records
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Private listen - HERE
Album Launch Show @ St Pancras Old Church, London - 7th May 2025
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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
The Sewing Room album tracklist:
01 Yacht Rock
02 Spades
03 Golden Child
04 Lost On Me
05 The Centre
06 Pool Shark
07 Physical Education
08 Endeavours
09 Exit Plan
10 Grit
Laura Reznek online:
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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) & HIDE (James Alexandrou), podcasts Expectant (Pippa Johnstone), & 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.
Listen to lead single ‘Endeavours’:
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Private listen - https://on.soundcloud.com/zXjAkAxqTTN4PL2t9
Listen to ‘Spades’:
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Watch lyric video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d47qzAPnk4k
