LAURA REZNEK Examines Patriarchal Power Imbalances On New Single ‘Yacht Rock’ Out Now

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Canadian/UK-based Multi-Instrumentalist, Songwriter & Composer’s New Album The Sewing Room Released 25th April 2025 via Mary Yelling Records

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Announces June 2025 Canada Live Dates + September 2025 UK Headline Tour Dates On Sale Now

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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 has today revealed her new single ‘Yacht Rock’ which is set for release on 22nd April 2025 via all good DSPs.

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.

A slow boil of rage and reflection, 'Yacht Rock' spirals from a glare at the patriarchy to a mirror held up to old wounds. It’s about men—the ones who shaped us, hurt us, haunted us—and the strange rituals we invent to survive them.

Commenting on the single, Reznek says: “Yacht Rock is the opening track of the album—a song that began in a place of fury at powerful men, but ended up mapping the quieter, more personal toll that power imbalances can take. It moves from pointed frustration to something more tender and haunting, asking what we internalise, inherit, or reenact without realising. The title nods to a throwaway reference in the song — an image of detachment and easy listening — but beneath it is something much heavier.”

Alongside the new single, Reznek recently announced a pair of June 2025 Canadian headline dates—a run of September 2025 UK headline tour dates with support from Martha St. Arthur are also on sale now (see below for listings).

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 nearly sold out.

Following the release of her acclaimed debut and the cross-disciplinary stage show Agrimony, Canadian-born songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Laura Reznek returns this spring with her most personal and unflinching work to date: The Sewing Room—an album born from seismic loss, slow healing, and the search for clarity through art.

The project began in the aftermath of a devastating period marked by the suicide of her father, followed in quick succession by the deaths of other close family members and the incarceration of a relative. “It felt like I was living all five stages of grief at once,” she recalls. “The world became incredibly quiet and loud at the same time. Everything felt brighter, almost uncomfortably so. I was seeing the world with new eyes, because everything that used to matter suddenly didn’t.”

In the year that followed her father’s death, music — once a constant companion — fell silent. The only lyrics she managed to write were a few lines for a song called ‘Leap Year’, fragments she struggled to recall without having them written in front of her. “My brain just stopped. I couldn't make sense of anything. It was only when I broke my shoulder a year later and sat down at the piano with two working fingers that things started to return. The first two chords I played became the beginning of ‘Spades,’ and that song opened the floodgates.”

The title, The Sewing Room, comes from her grandmother’s house — a sacred place from childhood that became a guiding metaphor for the album’s emotional terrain. “It was the only space I could picture myself in where it felt safe to lay out every emotion and piece of information and try to understand it,” she says. “It was where patterns emerged. Where I could decide which relationships to mend, which ones to unstitch, and which needed distance. It’s not about finding perfect clarity — just creating a space to begin piecing it all together.”

While the album is deeply personal, Reznek is conscious of the power in making space for others. “In those early days, I kept thinking: one day, I want to be the person I couldn’t find. Someone who knows the terrain, who doesn’t need everything explained.” Performing these songs has opened quiet conversations with audience members who’ve experienced similar losses — a reminder that vulnerability can create connection, even in the darkest moments.

With The Sewing Room, Reznek hasn’t just stitched together her own fractured story — she’s created a quiet, luminous space for others to begin doing the same.


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* (UK)
June 03 - Toronto - The Burdock (CAN)
June 12 - Vancouver - Zameen Art House (CAN)
September 15 - Birmingham - Kitchen Garden Cafe (UK)
September 17 - Sheffield - Cafe 9 (UK)
September 18 - Newcastle - Little Buildings (UK)
September 19 - Liverpool - Prohibition Studios (UK)

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:

https://www.laura-reznek.com
https://www.instagram.com/laurareznek
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More info:
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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Listen to ‘Spades’:

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Watch lyric video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d47qzAPnk4k