Laurence Osborn's first album TOMB! received brilliant reviews and is shortlisted in the Contemporary category for the Gramophone Awards 2026.
"This release, with its vivid sound and detailed notes, [is] essential for anyone at all concerned with music at this stage in the 21st century"
- Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone
"First, he writes with precision and expertise. As the listener, you are pulled into the Laurence Osborn sound-world, not to be confused with anybody else’s. Second, Osborn is a master of tone. He can slide between slyly funny and earnest in a matter of bars. The music is so much fun. Third, he is supported here by some incredible musicians who clearly believe in the music and give it all their heart… I’m excited to hear much more from Osborn in the future… These are delightful, engaging, and rewarding contemporary works"
- Aidan Grey, Music Web International
"Laurence Osborn is a composer with a strong and distinctive voice—one that ranges from the arch and ironic to the deadly serious—and this collection of four pieces, engaging with classical music's heritage culture, the bold imaginative world of childhood, and the sometimes vertiginous boundary between the mechanical and the human, constitutes a powerful statement about where contemporary music can travel when it is in genuinely fearless hands.
Throughout all four pieces, Osborn deploys virtuosic techniques with assurance, and his use of pizzicato is a recurring delight — nimble, pointed, and always purposeful. This is contemporary music that earns its difficulty, rewarding patience with moments of real illumination"
- Andrew Palmer, Chimeo
