Laura Evans - 'Out of the Dark' Available to pre-order Released 17th October 2025

The potential was obvious from Laura’s previous recorded work and live shows supporting bands like Robert Jon & The Wreck and Robben Ford, but this time she’s really poured her heart and soul into a fine collection of blues-lite belters. She’s also worked with co-writers like Ian Barter (Amy Winehouse / Paloma Faith) and together they’ve added a sheen of polish and some big poppy choruses to some marvellous songs, the advance tracks of which are currently being heavily played and praised on BBC Radio 2.

The lead “focus” track is ‘Wherever You Are’ – one of the more overtly bluesy songs, but with strong pop sensibilities and it has grabbed a lot of attention. That’s also the case for ‘Superman’, which features in a nice video (link attached). It’s a lush and beautiful song with great hooks and you can decide for yourself who has the best smile in the promo; Laura or posthumous cameo guest star Christopher Reeve.

If you want to sing the blues, it helps to have a good / bad back story and Laura certainly does. She’s more than paid her dues with an acting and singing career that has taken her from Wales to Basil Brush and pantomime to vampire movies, Hollywood comedies, Nashville and a few more stops along the road. My Rockfiend colleague Gareth reviewed Laura’s 2020 ‘Running Back to You’ EP very positively and noted some of the apparent heartbreak behind some of the songs. In 2025, Laura is noticeably in a much more positive-blues place now – clearly a woman that has finally arrived in the right place at the right time with the right songs and ready to show the world ‘What I’m Made Of’ – the title of another great song on the album, and I also really like the triumphantly bitter kiss-off of ‘ATM’ – “you got the money, but you ain’t got me” and “the one that got away” story of ‘Heartbreaker’.

Laura got married to a very handsome and talented chap called Rich Turner recently. She wrote the song ‘Always and Forever’ for the occasion and it is a sunny, loved-up ballad, but with an edge of sass in a beautifully nuanced vocal. ‘I’ll Be the One’ is similarly soulful and infatuated, but my absolute favourite of the “lovey-dovey” songs is ‘Nobody Loves Me Like You’ – a sultry torch song with depth that is eminently chart-worthy and highly recommended.

‘Out of the Dark’ really is a very fine and classy piece of work indeed and absolutely should put Laura Evans into the spotlight where she belongs. The album is available to pre-order now (and there are some very nice signed CD / vinyl offers – see below). Laura and her full band will embark on a UK tour of England and Wales in November, although an extensive run of dates with King King throughout October will take her to Glasgow’s Barrowlands just before that.