Songfacts®:

• This song is based on the Twin Peaks character of the same name. The early 1990s television drama series centered on the question, "Who killed Laura Palmer," Laura being a beautiful high-school student. As the series progressed, viewers learned that Palmer was not the innocent she originally appeared to be.
  
  Noah and the Whale's Last Night On Earth track, "Wild Thing" was also inspired by the Twin Peaks murder victim.
• The song was originally the title track of Bastille's 2011 Laura Palmer EP.
• Bastille's creepy accompanying video for their track "Overjoyed" was also heavily inspired by Twin Peaks.
• Bastille have often doffed their caps to Twin Peaks director David Lynch in their music videos.Frontman Dan Smith told Radio.com why this song's clip doesn't. "Because the song is called 'Laura Palmer,' we were worried about doing anything that even remotely nodded towards David Lynch so we went off in the other direction," he explained. "The point of the video is that it's us making the sort of lasers and smoke, forest pop video that we would never want to make and then completely subverting it by having me kidnapped and tortured."
• Dan Smith told NME he wanted the "ooh's" throughout the intro and outro of this song "to feel quite sort of strange and sort of set the atmosphere," to capture the eerie quality of Twin Peaks.