AUGUST 13, 2025
SILVERLAKE

After releasing my last record BE HERE NOW in 2017, my voice fell silent. 8 long years. No songs came. I didn't even want to sing or touch the piano. Something about it felt too painful.

But last year something shifted.

Songs started coming back like gentle lightning, illuminating the corners of a long darkened room. Before I knew it, I was on a solo US tour, and back in the studio recording fragile acoustic songs that felt like journal entries my voice had been hiding, even from me.

This fall I'm releasing a new album. Maybe two. I'll be doing this on my own without the support of a label for the first time since the first Mynabirds record came out in 2010. It feels both terrifying and exhilarating. But the deep community connections we're forging and nourishing directly with one another is what gives me the most hope these days.

Who needs a middle man?

I'm also going on a full US tour in November & December -- another solo Undertow tour playing stripped down versions of brand new and old songs in intimate spaces. We're looking for people & venues to host these show dates. Submit your spaces at undertowmusic.com.

I'll be partnering with local nonprofits in each town to raise awareness (and funds!) for the great work being done all over America -- regardless of what hell those in power are putting us through. People and music together in rooms IRL is something AI could never replicate, and what, I really believe, will save us.

My new releases will not be on Spotify. I have removed my music from that platform in protest of their terrible artist pay, AI music platforming, and CEO Daniel Ek's investment of nearly $700m -- money he profited off the backs of paying artists poverty wages -- into an AI military start-up, of which he is now Chairman.

I believe in CREATIVE solutions to our world's urgent problems.
Not more war and destruction that kills us and the planet, too.

I encourage you to join me on all other streaming platforms. Please go to qob.uz/mynabirds to try one month of streaming on QOBUZ -- best-paying & most ethical streamer out there -- for free.

More info on the album title (titles??), vinyl & digital release dates, final tour routing & tickets coming soon.

Thank you for listening -- deeply, always.

xx
Laura.