Lizzie Reid
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Lizzie Reid shares new single “Sweet Relief” (ft. Hamish Hawk) & announces new EP Undoing out 17th April. UK headline tour dates to take place April 2026.
Today, Glaswegian singer-songwriter Lizzie Reid returns with details of a new EP titled Undoing, which is due out 17th April. To mark the announcement, Reid has shared her ruminative and dark new single “Sweet Relief” and revealed a new run of headline UK tour dates to follow the EP in April.
Since releasing her breakthrough, SAY Award shortlisted debut “Cubicle”, Reid has successfully become what so many artists aspire towards: a musician’s musician. Not only has she earned widespread plaudits for her raw exploration of quiet and devastating topics and landed support slots for the likes of Jasmine 4.t, John Cale, Hamish Hawk, Arlo Parks, and Tori Amos, but she has also recently collaborated and played with some of Scotland’s most active up-and-coming acts, including Jacob Alon, Dead Pony, Lucia & The Best Boys and Katie Gregson-MacLeod. Now, as she continues this enviable, cult ascent, Reid returns the focus to her most unrestrained and vulnerable work to date.
The first taste of this comes in the form of “Sweet Relief”, the EP’s grand opener. Loud, dark, and uncompromising, its snarling guitar lines, thundering drums and ghostly synths provide the ideal working atmosphere for Reid’s lyrics to make their mark. Accented by unsettling sirens and screeches, Reid croons, more proudly than ever:
“I risk everything for more, to live in pain again, shame again, bigger than ever before.”
The single also features friend and collaborator Hamish Hawk on guest vocals, and guitar work from Andrew Pearson who plays alongside Reid in Hawk’s band.
Speaking on the single, Reid says,
“Sweet Relief speaks of my experience dealing with the full throws of obsession, rumination, depression, and panic. The way I desperately attempted to comfort myself only brought momentary relief from the storm.
The cycle is brutal, exhausting and incredibly sneaky. The more I searched for solutions, the murkier the waters became, making it near impossible for light to come into the frame.
The temptation and urgency to “fix myself” is a voice that appears to want to help, but in fact was keeping me in the cycle of darkness to relief to darkness again.”
“Sweet Relief” too further excavates the EP’s title, Undoing; not merely paying witness to a monumental emotional collapse, the listener is invited to view the EP as Reid does herself, as an opportunity for unlearning now defunct patterns of thinking and behaviour, a means to discover new life amongst the ashes. Reid is not shy of the ugliness of rage or the awkwardness of grief. She is not timid when it comes to putting her life to music; indeed, for Reid, it is in the baring all, in the outpouring itself that her work finds its true north.
Photo by Marilena Vlachopoulou
To celebrate Undoing, Reid will be heading out on tour in late April/early May. The tour will follow her forthcoming support slot with Jacob Alon at BRITs Week for War Child in Edinburgh later this month. Full dates are as follows:
Tour dates
27th Feb – Assembly Rooms – Edinburgh w/ Jacob Alon
26th April – Cottiers Theatre – Glasgow
28th April – Oporto – Leeds
29th April – The Castle Hotel – Manchester
30th April – The Waiting Room – London
2nd May – Rough Trade – Bristol
