Vancouver’s Laura Reznek recently released a brand new single, “You Are Bad”, a deeply haunting song with Reznek’s smoky vocals piano, with dissonant interruptions.

Reznek says the song was written “to try to understand an intense and toxic conflict that took a long time to recover from. I was feeling an overwhelming sense of guilt when I wrote this - guilty for the situation itself and my role in it, but also wondering if I needed to be guilty at all. The reason why it was so important for me, is that I needed to find forgiveness - both for the other person involved and for myself. I tried to express the arc of how my own personal train-of-thought would go; starting off in a sort of reflective, passive state, moving into a romanticising of the situation, then to anger and accusation towards the other person, followed by anger and accusation towards myself, and finally a truce of some sort. This was my pattern of thinking that would happen over and over again.”

Watch the video below, which was directed by Nicola Fuller.