Laura Misch announces new album 'Lithic' out June 5 via One Little Independent Records

LAURA MISCH ANNOUNCES HER SECOND ALBUM LITHIC OUT JUNE 5 VIA ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT RECORDS LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE “ECHOES” HERE PRE-ORDER ALBUM HERE SEE LAURA MISCH LIVE AT THE BARBICAN ON JULY 3, 2026, TICKETS HERE Credit: Joya Berrow | Download here “Celebrates a mystical communion of people, nature and art” The New York Times   “So thoroughly envisioned, it’s almost miraculous” The Line Of Best Fit February 18, 2026—Laura Misch returns with her anticipated second album, Lithic, out via One Little Independent Records on June 5, 2026—presave/preorder here. The announcement is accompanied by her new single “Echoes”, a transportive saxophone- and voice-led meditation—listen/share here. The release comes ahead of Misch’s biggest headline show to date at London’s Barbican on July 3, 2026—tickets are available now here. Reflecting on “Echoes”, Misch says; ““Echoes” is a song about listening through deep time. It calls back to ancient ancestors and forward to future generations, communing with both. The lyrics were inspired by looking at the oldest known female Venus figurines and feeling awe for these Palaeolithic early earth dwellers, and then watching a friend’s baby crawl on the floor - experiencing the same sense of wonder at how sensorily alive she is.” Composed around a small number of primal elements, “Echoes” centres breath - saxophone and voice pitched and echoed through electronics - alongside percussion and a goat skin drum that lends the track a ritualistic pulse. Its reverbs and echoes were shaped by Misch’s experiences improvising in caves and quarries in Cornwall, before the track was further weathered through tape machines. The rhythm of “Echoes” grew out of Misch’s score for BBC Radio 4’s A Lemur’s Song, inspired by research into the rhythmic calls of female lemurs. “Scientists found patterns similar to the drumbeat of Queen’s “We Will Rock You”,” she explains. “I recreated the rhythm using saxophone keys as percussion before adding the goat skin drum, played by Matt Davies. I was drawn to the connections between ancestral rhythms and those shared across species.” 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 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.   Credits Produced by Laura Misch and Matt Karmil Vocals, saxophone and percussion by Laura Misch Goat skin drum by Matt Davies Mixed by Matt Karmil | Mastered by Erik Breuer Lithic Creative Direction by Laura Misch and Joya Berrow Artwork photographed by Joya Berrow     ‘Lithic’ Artwork by Joya Berrow | Download here   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   LAURA MISCH LIVE July 3—London, UK— Barbican—Tickets   Follow Laura Misch Spotify | Instagram | Facebook | X | Bandcamp   Follow One Little Independent Website | Facebook | Instagram | X