Laura Misch – Shell
Laura Misch has shared a music video with her new single “Shell”, from her forthcoming second album, Lithic, to be released via One Little Independent Records on 5 June 2026.
Marking a new direction in her songwriting, “Shell” is Laura’s most folk-leaning release to date, foregrounding voice and acoustic texture. The track features layered, delicately breathing cello from Katt Newlon, creating a sparse and intimate arrangement that centres on space, tone and resonance.
Written while alone in winter amongst the shingle deserts and storms of Dungeness, “Shell” is an ode to seeking shelter. The exposed landscape, filled with hag stones and an endless pebble beach stretching to the horizon, represents the final stage of the rock cycle Laura traced throughout the making of Lithic, which began under towering Cornish cliffs.
Lithic is a cave borne out of emotion and elemental force. Sound and existential thought echo through its chasms, while ancient history lingers within the stone. Fractured by age, eroded by weather, and awakened by voice, body and breath, the album traces sound back to its primal origins – unearthing music summoned from beneath the ground and from the darkest parts of ourselves.
Where Misch’s acclaimed debut Sample the Sky (2023) floated above ground in clouds of sound – followed by its acoustic counterpart Sample the Earth (2024) – Lithic journeys downward through deep time, informed by geology and the elemental forces of wind, water and stone.
The album’s conceptual foundations draw on deep listening practices, eco-acoustics and geology. Inspired by artists and thinkers such as Barbara Hepworth, Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, eco- psychotherapist and author of Weathering Ruth Allen, and David Haskell’s writing on the origins and evolution of sound, Lithic considers sound as an ancient material, something that can shape, weather and transform over time. It is a deeply feminine record, tracing the rough and soft edges of ageing: the weathered lines etched upon a face, the worn fractures in a rockface.
Defined as “of the nature of or relating to stone”, Lithic holds both grief and hope, swaying between melancholia and euphoria. It offers a moment to listen deeply and reconnect with our shared ancestries in a fractured time.
3 July – London, UK – Barbican
24th Sept – Sweden, Malmo – Inkonst
26th Sept – Denmark, Copenhagen – Kulturhuset
27th Sept – Sweden, Stockholm – Fasching
1st Oct – Poland, Warsaw – Jassmine
2nd Oct – Germany, Berlin – Heimathafen
4th Oct – Netherlands, Amsterdam – Concertgebouw (Kleine Zaal)
7th Oct – Italy, Milan – Arci Bellezza
8th Oct – Switzerland, Zurich – Kirche Neumunster
13th Oct – Spain, Madrid – venue TBA
14th Oct – Spain, Barcelona – Razzmatazz 3
15th Oct – Portugal, Porto – Casa da Musica
29th Nov – Portugal, Lisbon – Cultural Centre do Belem
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