Four Foundations, One EP - Sara Leanne’s Uprooted EP
- Flex Admin
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Four foundations. That's how Sara Leanne describes her debut EP, Uprooted: family, love, friendship and music, each one shaken up and rebuilt over the course of a single, transformative year.
It's a neat framework, but nothing about the record feels tidy or overworked. Sara studied classical music and spent time working as an artist manager in that world before crossing over to the other side of the stage, drawn in by projects like Blues Kitchen and shows built around Carole King's songbook. Somewhere in that shift she fell for the timeless stuff, and it shows: piano-led, blues-soaked, unhurried in a way that plenty of contemporary singer-songwriter records aren't.
Each track on Uprooted pulls from a different corner of that world. 'Take Me As I Am' is the closest thing here to a straight 1970s piano ballad, stripped back to just Sara's vocal and playing, written from heartbreak and the search for something healthier on the other side of it. 'Loved Into Something New' swings into blues-rock and soft-rock territory, a thank-you note to the friends who carried her through a rough patch. 'Breathe' closes things out somewhere folkier and more atmospheric, with Andrew Jones on piano and Alex Hillman on guitar filling out the space around her voice.
Lead single 'Song From Your Daughter' set the tone for all of it. Written after the loss of her father and produced with input from engineer Matt Butler, whose credits stretch from Paul McCartney to Pink Floyd, the track is the emotional anchor of the EP and shares its cover artwork with the man it's written about, Sara's dad, Pete Edwards.
What ties the whole thing together isn't a genre so much as an attitude: Sara has said she used to prioritise music over lyrics in her writing, but on this EP the words came easily, because for once she stopped worrying about what other people would make of them. That shift is audible from the first bar to the last.
Uprooted is out now - 13th August 2026.
PRESS PHOTO CREDIT: Luca Rudlin | Dan Wiebe
COVER PHOTO BY PETE EDWARDS (SARA’S DAD)
