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Laura Reznek is a London-based songwriter and composer creating expansive alt-folk driven by precise vocals, rich harmonies, and detailed, emotionally charged writing.
Laura Reznek has been writing, performing, and composing internationally for over a decade. Her music has been heard from the smallest of spaces spaces - bell towers, train cars, canal boats - to landmark stages including Carnegie Hall, the National Arts Centre of Canada, Harbourfront Centre and Scotiabank Dance Centre. Her work has drawn audiences into both subtle intimacy and expansive, full-band energy. In 2024, her contemporary dance show Agrimony premiered to critical acclaim, pairing her live music with choreography in a project that explored the quiet persistence of life.
"I cut my teeth in those dark alleyways/Oh how could I have been so easily swayed?" she sings on her latest full-length album The Sewing Room. Raw and honest, with an elevated DIY-aesthetic, Laura draws on contemporaries such as Nick Drake and folk legend Judee Sill to stare grief back in the face. With tender curiosity and the clarity afforded by retrospect, Laura makes sense of the familial characters in her life while reconstructing her own sense of agency. Appropriately, she created much of the album completely solo, rotating between acoustic instruments, vocals, analog synths, and the piano she inherited from her patrilineal grandmother, Zelda, to create an organic, lo-fi sound that is completely her own.
This is an album that rejects binaries by building a powerful soundscape where grief is firmly holding hands with joy. "...Let's go backwards/pinpoint the problems," she sings to a beloved with the knowledge that such revision isn't possible. Instead, there is the inevitably of change and the sensemaking that comes with time, carried by Laura's vast vocal range and epiphanic musical swells. The Sewing Room is Laura at her strongest and most self-possessed, a testament to feeling the full extent of what it means to be human.