Laura Reznek has never liked to talk about herself. If you listen closely to her music, however, you’ll hear murmurs of naked disclosure — fragments of grief, anger, and complicated joy riddled through her melodies.
On Laura Reznek's raw and exacting new album, The Sewing Room, the Canada-born/UK-based singer-songwriter takes an unflinching look at the ways grief and joy function not as binary opposites but as companion states.
Portalling listeners through deeply personal storytelling paired with an organic, DIY aesthetic, Laura's newest album is a feat of honesty and self-possession. Sharpening the blade of melancholy into something more active, more useful, Laura casts back through the familial characters of her life with a tenderness afforded by time. "I cut my teeth in those dark alleyways/Oh how could I have been so easily swayed?" she sings with the advantage of retrospect.
