Liz Lawrence - Vespers Liz Lawrence

Vespers, the new record by Liz Lawrence, is an album about tragedy. It is the record of a life and death, an act of devotion and reflection. Liz wrote the songs in the ashes of disaster: "It is dedicated to my beautiful sister Jessie and her too-short life.” Jessie was 35 when she died. 

Vespers was written over a period of three weeks, its songs coming in a short burst, all at once, six months after Jessie died. Its music exists at the borders of the before and the after. "If you want to understand the change in me, from the person who made Peanuts to the person who wrote Vespers, then this is it.  Grief changes you. I don't recognise the person I was before."

The demos for these songs were written simply and plainly, often first recorded only as a vocal, and later fleshed out on the old nylon-stringed guitar that Liz has had since she was 10 years old. Liz recorded and produced the finished version of Vespers herself, in the late summer of 2025, at Vada Studios in Worcestershire, close to her home and to her family. The studios are in a deconsecrated church, built on top of an old convent and burial ground.