Laura Fell – Only One Of Me Around (Wipeout Music)
With EP All The Work To Keep At Bay due in March 2026 Laura Fell continues an enticing, emotional and warmly melodic run of singles with Only One Of Me Around
Artist: Laura Fell
Track: Only One Of Me Around
Label: Wipeout Music
Release date: 21 January 2026
Find it: Spotify
On latest single Only One Of Me Around Laura Fell once again shows her mastery of vulnerability, self-awareness and incredible musicianship.
Seemingly reflecting on the loneliness which can come with standing in your uniqueness, and the pull of self-betrayal to be part of something there is a pastoral folk-guitar line gently tripping along throughout as washes of sound build before we’re left with the fuzzy reverb forcing us to confront our own thoughts for the last 30 seconds or so.
With an instantly recognisable timbre to her vocal, Fell is a friend kindly but honestly guiding us while melodically it seems butterflies flutter, a meadow blooms, and we’re the ones eclipsing our own sun.
The track leads us further toward EP All The Work To Keep At Bay which is due in March, and to which we were introduced with single Earthworm last November. Fell seems to have found a natural rhythm to her releases as we also had EPs in 2025 and 2024 (Talk It All Apart and At Least I Tried) following a hiatus after her 2020 debut album Safe From Me. Of this debut we enthused 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.’
Now working with Mercury Prize-winning producer Mike Lindsey (Tunng, LUMP, Speech Debelle, Anna B Savage) we’re excited to hear the new EP in full, while being more than happy to linger in the company of Only One Of Me Around for a time.
Watch a live performance by Laura Fell of Only One Of Me Around
Only One Of Me Around by Laura Fell is out digitally now. EP All The Work To Keep At Bay is due out in March 2026. Read our review of recent single Earthworm here.
Find Laura Fell: Facebook | Instagram | Spotify | Website
Image: 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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