Laura Groves announces new EP "Yes" out 1st August via Bella Union
Following her recent collaborative work with Richard Russell’s Everything Is Recorded project, Laura Groves today announces the release of Yes, a new 4-track EP out 1st August via Bella Union and available to pre-order here. Alongside the announcement Laura has shared alluring lead track “Deep Blue”, a song that encompasses themes of emotional intensity, passing through doors of perception and recollection; questions of trust and paranoia; knowing when to surrender and concede; tuning in to intuition like scanning through a radio. The accompanying video, which as a multi-disciplinary artist Laura created herself, is a striking video collage similar in style to her previous video work for 2023’s Radio Red album, made up of layered footage she shot and collected over the last few years. Click HERE to watch.
Commenting on “Deep Blue” Laura Groves says: “Deep Blue is a song about asking somebody to be vulnerable and reveal more of their secret world, whilst also trying to embody those things myself. There is a directness to the hard kick drum and opening lines of the song - a confrontation and then an admission of deep feelings, stirred up like a deep blue body of water by the heavily modulated Juno 106 synthesiser. My close friends Joviale and Fabiana Palladino join me on backing vocals in the chorus.”
Following a thread from 2020’s A Private Road, the Yes EP is a filmic journey into, through and out of a period of lockdown, unearthing previously buried fragments and flashes of memory, set against a backdrop of night-time London streets, radio towers, northern inner-city streets, TV screen static, basement dancefloors and moorland roads. Self-produced, written and recorded in London, with the addition of bassist Ben Reed, mixer TJ Allen and artists Joviale and Fabiana Palladino and mastering engineer Noel Summerville, the EP draws on jewelled 80s pop songwriting, R&B, sampling, dance, electronic music, composition for radio and TV and soul music as memory fragments, pieced together through Groves’ characteristic use of soft and hazy modulation, reverbs, delays and EQ to create a whole picture. Yes is a de-constructed and re-constructed pop record as a form of remembering and recording a thread of ever-present love.
Laura Groves has a busy and varied upcoming live schedule including shows supporting Jessica Pratt in July before she hooks up with Everything Is Recorded to perform as part of their live band at a number of festivals and the Village Underground in London. Then in November Laura will play a number of shows supporting Nourished by Time. Dates and info below:
3rd July - Headline show, Spanners, London, UK
5th July - Zorlu Performing Arts Centre, Istanbul, TR w/ Jessica Pratt
7th July - Paradiso, Amsterdam NL w/ Jessica Pratt
8th July - 4AD, Diksmulde, BE w/ Jessica Pratt
13th July - w/ Everything is Recorded band - Gent Jazz, BE
16th July - w/ Everything is Recorded band - Manchester International Festival, UK
2nd August - w/ Everything is Recorded band - All Together Now, IE
16th August - w/ Everything is Recorded band - We Out Here, UK
30th August - w/ Everything is Recorded band - Into the Great Wide Open, NL
4th November - w/ Everything is Recorded band - Village Underground, London, UK
8th November - Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen, Denmark w/ Nourished by Time
10th November - Nochtspeicher, Hamburg, Germany w/ Nourished by Time
12th November - Hydrozagadkaklub, Warsaw, Poland w/ Nourished by Time
21st November - Band on the Wall, Manchester w/ Nourished by Time
22nd November - Glasgow School of Art w/ Nourished by Time
Laura Groves is a singer‑songwriter, producer, multi‑instrumentalist and multi-disciplinary artist known for her deeply evocative, avant‑pop sound. Born in Bradford and based in London, Groves crafts richly textured, subtly experimental songs that blend ambient synths, layered harmonies and poetic storytelling. Fiercely unique and uncompromising, her work probes human connection with rare intelligence and emotional clarity. Her most recent album was 2023’s critically acclaimed Radio Red while the past two years have seen her collaborate with Richard Russell’s Everything Is Recorded and provide keyboards and vocals in Sam Morton’s live band having performed on her album “Daffodils and Dirt.” She also presents a long-running show on NTS Radio called ‘Desire Paths.”
Yes EP artwork and tracklist:
1. Yes
2. Deep Blue
3. Be There
4. Heavy Entertainment
