With “Something’s Coming”, out on November 13th, Laura Anglade expands her musical vocabulary, crossing Broadway musicals, mid-twentieth century pop, Brazilian rhythms and the singer-songwriter tradition.
A work that distances vocal jazz from its more usual coordinates to bring it closer to a narrative, theatrical and intimately personal dimension.
The album represents, in the singer’s words, “a new era of my artistic expression”, accompanied by the feeling of being “on the threshold of something I can’t yet define”. It is precisely this condition of waiting that becomes the underlying theme of the project, starting from the title track, built on an irregular tempo that progressively opens up to a tumbao groove.
“I feel like I take more risks, I’m more experimental and I can push myself further, testing my limits,” says Anglade. An interpretative freedom that translates into a repertoire of changing sensitivity, where irony, vulnerability, romanticism and restlessness coexist without forcing.
Musical theater constitutes the conceptual core of the album.
«I was a child who lived from the theater», recalls the singer, «rather shy, so I never got leading roles. Now I feel like I can finally take on those shoes.” A statement that also clarifies the interpretative approach adopted: each song becomes a character to inhabit, a scene to go through, a fragment of a story.
The making of Something’s Coming developed over almost ten years together with pianist and accordionist Ben Rosenblum, who was also responsible for the string arrangements. Bassist Marty Jaffe and drummer Ben Zweig participated in the project.
Alongside the title track, the repertoire includes a reinterpretation of Sunday in New York, the naturalness of Just a Little Lovin’ and the melancholy crossed by the Brazilian sounds of Something to Remember You By. In Lonely Town, Maybe This Time and The Music That Makes Me Dance the more openly theatrical component emerges, with Anglade committed to exploring different emotional and interpretative registers.
The release comes after a particularly significant season for the singer. The previous Get Out of Town (2025) won the Vocal Jazz Album of the Year award at the 2026 JUNO Awards, while appearances on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Kelly Clarkson Show helped broaden his international visibility.
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