PRESS RELEASES
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photo credit: Joya Berrow / click for hi-res version
photo credit: Joya Berrow / click for hi-res version
‘Lithic’ Artwork by Joya Berrow / click for hi-res version
LAURA MISCH RELEASES DOUBLE SINGLES:
“KAIROS” AND “SCROLLS”
“Celebrates a mystical communion of people, nature and art”
Credits LISTENING PARTIES LAURA MISCH LIVE
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FROM HER SECOND ALBUM LITHIC, OUT 5TH JUNE 2026 VIA ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS
WATCH/SHARE THE MUSIC VIDEOS FOR “KAIROS” HERE AND “SCROLLS” HERE
PRE-ORDER LITHIC HERE
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The New York Times
“So thoroughly envisioned, it’s almost miraculous”
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The Line Of Best Fit
March 18, 2026—Laura Misch has shared two new tracks, “Kairos” and “Scrolls”, from her upcoming second album, Lithic, to be released via One Little Independent Records on June 5—watch/share the video for “Kairos” here and for "Scrolls" here.
“Kairos” and “Scrolls” were recorded between an old slate quarry in Cornwall, and the Aegean sea on the island of hydra, featuring an 180-year-old stone lithophone, the Musical Stones of Skiddaw, woven with the wind, sea, and temperate rainforest rain. “Kairos” encompasses the central theme of the album: time. The antithesis of mechanical chronos time, kairos in ancient Greek, represents the slow shaping of the world over time; an immovable stone constantly battling wind, sea, and pressure becomes reformed.
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.
For more information, Krista Williams or Carla Sacks
at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000
Produced by Laura Misch and Matt Karmil
Vocals, saxophone, synthesis and electronics by Laura Misch
Live drums by Matt Davies
Programmed drums by Matt Karmil
Mixed by Matt Karmil | Mastered by Erik Breuer
Lithic Creative Direction by Laura Misch and Joya Berrow
Artwork photographed by Joya Berrow
28th May /// Helm Studios, London
July 3 /// London, UK /// Barbican—Tickets
TRACK LIST
LITHIC
1. Breathing
2. Kairos
3. Echoes
4. Siren
5. Scrolls
6. Soften
7. Circle
8. Fo(r)est
9. Jealousea
10. Mythic
11. Shell
12. Spiral
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