'dark secrets' the first of a series of releases exploring the traumatic responses to a major vehicle accident Laura and her band experienced on tour in 2023. This record explores grief, and forms half of the songs that appear on 'stranger to myself', a future release. "hope, as a feeling" is an exclusive track to 'dark secrets'.

This record discusses PTSD, trauma, near-death experience, mental illness, suicide, crash scenes, and head-injuries.