Biography
Laura Groves works as a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist within the realm of atmospheric art-pop. Her assured and well-received debut album arrived in 2009 under the folk-oriented project name Blue Roses, after which she has issued all further recordings under her given name. The EPs Thinking About Thinking (2013), Committed Language (2015), and A Private Road (2020), together with assorted tracks and numerous performances alongside peers including Bullion and Bat for Lashes, led to her second full-length release overall, Radio Red (2023), which appeared on Bella Union.
Originally from Shipley, West Yorkshire, and now resident in South London, Groves put out her earliest single, “I Am Leaving,” on the Salvia subsidiary of XL Recordings in 2007 under her birth name. She soon performed as Blue Roses and delivered the self-titled album in 2009. A couple of years afterward she composed and played music for the 1920 silent film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She next moved into art-pop as part of the trio Nautic, formed with Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion) and Timmaz Zolleyn (aka Tic, founder of Salvia). Continuing to develop solo work, she received backing from Jenkins and his Deek Recordings label for the EPs Thinking About Thinking and Committed Language, released in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In subsequent years she performed or recorded with Bat for Lashes, Ben Reed, Sampha, the Magnetic North, and This Heat.
Groves kept a particularly busy schedule in 2020, appearing on albums by Wilma Archer, Westerman, and Darkstar while also supplying a remix for Yutie Lee. She independently released several tracks, contributed to the compilation Chill Pill II, and closed the year with her Bella Union debut, the EP A Private Road. The next year she co-wrote and featured on “Blue Soul” by Lost Horizons, the project of Bella Union head Simon Raymonde. Her own “Heaven Again” appeared on the 2022 compilation Scenic Route: The Road Less Travelled, Vol. 1, the same year she featured on Jamie Leeming’s “Long Term Memory.” Radio Red, simultaneously aching and comforting and titled after the transmitter-tower lights visible from the home studio in which she recorded it, arrived in August 2023.
Originally from Shipley, West Yorkshire, and now resident in South London, Groves put out her earliest single, “I Am Leaving,” on the Salvia subsidiary of XL Recordings in 2007 under her birth name. She soon performed as Blue Roses and delivered the self-titled album in 2009. A couple of years afterward she composed and played music for the 1920 silent film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. She next moved into art-pop as part of the trio Nautic, formed with Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion) and Timmaz Zolleyn (aka Tic, founder of Salvia). Continuing to develop solo work, she received backing from Jenkins and his Deek Recordings label for the EPs Thinking About Thinking and Committed Language, released in 2013 and 2015 respectively. In subsequent years she performed or recorded with Bat for Lashes, Ben Reed, Sampha, the Magnetic North, and This Heat.
Groves kept a particularly busy schedule in 2020, appearing on albums by Wilma Archer, Westerman, and Darkstar while also supplying a remix for Yutie Lee. She independently released several tracks, contributed to the compilation Chill Pill II, and closed the year with her Bella Union debut, the EP A Private Road. The next year she co-wrote and featured on “Blue Soul” by Lost Horizons, the project of Bella Union head Simon Raymonde. Her own “Heaven Again” appeared on the 2022 compilation Scenic Route: The Road Less Travelled, Vol. 1, the same year she featured on Jamie Leeming’s “Long Term Memory.” Radio Red, simultaneously aching and comforting and titled after the transmitter-tower lights visible from the home studio in which she recorded it, arrived in August 2023.
Albums
Singles
