Laura Fell – Earthworm (self released)
Laura Fell returns with new single Earthworm, a beautifully wonky lullaby about ‘how cruel and convincing our inner critic can be’
Artist: Laura Fell
Track: Earthworm
Label: self released
Released: 10 November 2025
Find it: YouTube
Starting with warm and gentle plucked guitar and the fuzzy recording of adult and child practicing words from flashcards, including the title of this track, Earthworm from Laura Fell sets hard introspection to light and playful melody.
With a languid feel to Fell’s distinctive vocal it is the voice which sets the rhythm as subtly and slowly pops of percussion join, waves of wonk break, the guitar line cycles on and on. It feels like it comes from a place of acceptance and practiced self-talk. Like so much of Fell’s music there is obvious attention to detail and care for the craft of songwriting.
‘I can’t believe / All I’ve achieved’
Laura Fell said Earthworm is, ‘a song about shame – how cruel and convincing our inner critic can be, and how to unlearn the lies about ourselves it tells us.’
The track follows on from Fell’s earlier 2025 release, EP Talk It All Apart and 2024 EP At Least I Tried. Her 2020 debut album Safe From Me of which we said it was a record of ‘intelligent, orchestrated alt-pop of the finest order, and quite astonishingly fully formed and distinctly visioned for an artist early in their career.’
With another EP planned for 2026 – on which Fell is currently working with Mercury Prize-winning producer Mike Lindsey (Tunng, LUMP, Speech Debelle, Anna B Savage) Earthworm is a beautifully crafted bridge between earlier work and what is to come.
Earthworm by Laura Fell is out digitally now.
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Image by: Hannah Lovell
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Sarah Lay
A long-standing music journalist she's also co-founder of independent record label Reckless Yes, an author of novels, and when not messing around with words and music, a digital strategist.
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