Laura Misch Releases sophomore album Lithic, out now

Laura Misch returns with her anticipated second album, Lithic, out now via One Little Independent Records.

Lithic artwork

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 debutSample of Sky (2023) floated above ground in clouds of sound - followed by its acoustic counterpart Sample of 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 aging: 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 music as a communal act - a space to gather, listen deeply, and reconnect with our shared ancestries in a fractured time.