Laura Mustard - Afraid Of The Dark
A new single on carjacking catharsis…because the world needs a pop song about PTSD - just in time for spooky season!!
Release date: October 15, 2025
ARTIST INFO:
Genre: Pop/Folk
Homebase: Nashville, TN
Hometown: Fairfield, CT - regional touring in CT/MA music scene
RIYL: Jason Mraz, Molly Tuttle, Audrey Hobert
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“What if what doesn’t kill you leaves you looking over your shoulder?”
Biography
Nashville-based musician, Laura Mustard, is more at home in the woods or a dog park than in a bar or club. She’s like your awkward sister who loves talking about feelings and wants to help you live your best life under the trees. This deep introspection was cultivated by Laura’s unique upbringing. Growing up in Fairfield, Connecticut, Laura’s childhood was filled with hospital visits and medical routines at home. Those early experiences make body positivity and self-acceptance a vital focus in both her life and her music. While in graduate school, Laura found kindred spirits in the musicians that she met at the now-Infamous Yellow Sofa Open Mic. This community of musicians led to Laura joining the jam band Stillbridge as their piano player, and the classic-rock band, The SilverTone5, as their drummer. Through these bands, she played all over the Connecticut and Western Massachusetts music scenes. Influenced by pop, singer/songwriter, Motown, and bluegrass, Laura released her debut EP, Ramble On, in 2016. In 2020, Laura had her first “cut” with a co-written song, “Colour Will Come Back” with Country UK Artist, Sabine. Teaming up with producer Ben Bishop, Laura released her sophomore project Treehouse in 2020, featuring a professionally produced music video that was filmed in a real treehouse and told a time traveling love story. Laura’s first full album release in 2022 was called Typewriter, a concept album on technology that was born out of a period of reflection on technology, her body and self acceptance during the pandemic in 2020. She followed this up with her Dirty Minds & Wild Hearts EP, a retrospective collection of songs about dating with chronic illness.
For her latest release, Laura worked with Nashville producer Nolan Sorsby to create “Afraid of the Dark” - a vulnerable yet poppy song about her experience being carjacked in 2016 off of Music Row. Laura shares, “being carjacked at gunpoint really changed my sense of trust in the world and how I navigate through it. There is a very clear ‘before’ and ‘after’”. This new single dives into living in the “after” and making peace (or at least co-existing) with PTSD. The uptempo folk/pop groove featuring fiddles and horns was created intentionally to present the subject matter in a more digestible way, and also because it mirrors the “brave face” one can put on around such an intense experience. Mustard also shares how grateful she is to songwriting for helping her process life's toughest moments and to create art that others may also find comfort in. This song will be available on all streaming platforms on October 15, 2025 - exactly 9 years to the day that Laura became “Afraid of the Dark”.
