Sara Leanne’s Uprooted EP is out now - Clear a quiet half hour and just sit with it…
- Flex Admin
- 2 hours ago
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Okay, so here's the thing about Uprooted: it shouldn't work as well as it does. Four songs, four pretty different moods, one very big central theme (a year where everything in Sara Leanne's life got turned upside down), and somehow it all hangs together like it was always meant to be as one.
Start with 'Take Me As I Am', because it's the one that'll probably stop you in your tracks first. Just piano and voice, no safety net, written in the wreckage of a relationship that clearly wasn't good for her. It sounds like it could have come out in 1974. That's a compliment.
Then things shift. 'Loved Into Something New' brings in Hammond and Wurlitzer instead of straight piano, and suddenly you're in blues-rock, soft-rock territory, and the mood lifts because this one isn't about heartbreak, it's a love letter to the friends who held Sara together when she needed it most. You can hear the gratitude in it.
'Song From Your Daughter' is the track most people will already know, since it landed as the lead single, and it's still the emotional centre of the whole project. Written after losing her dad, produced with an engineer who's worked with everyone from Macca to Floyd, and finished off with cover art by the very person the song's about. It's a lot. In the best way.
Closer 'Breathe' does exactly what it says, folky and spacious, Alex Hillman's guitar wrapped around Sara's vocal like it's giving her room to exhale after everything that came before.
Sara's spent years as a touring pianist, even stepping into Christine McVie's shoes for Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, so the musicianship on Uprooted was never going to be in question. What's genuinely impressive is how unguarded she lets herself sound across all four tracks. Nothing here feels performed for effect.
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