Head’s up, it’s Laufey time.
The Icelandic-Chinese language expertise returns with A Matter of Time (through Vingolf Recordings / AWAL), the followup to her 2023 assortment Bewitched, winner of the Grammy Award for finest conventional pop vocal album and a high 20 hit on the Billboard 200.
For A Matter of Time, Laufey (pronounced lay-vay) tapped a pair of co-producers. Returning to the fold was Spencer Stewart, who labored with Laufey on her first two albums, whereas Aaron Dessner (Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran) collaborated with the up to date jazz star for the primary time.
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Led by the singles “Silver Lining” and “Robust Luck,” A Matter of Time is a dreamy meditation, hugged with Laufey’s jazz fingers.
“I’m continually serious about classical and jazz, learn how to correctly protect them and pay homage. For this album,” she explains, “I simply needed to let my coronary heart wander.”
A Matter of Time, like 2022’s Every part I Know About Love and Bewitched is “for me is a clean ebook of tales to write down,” she explains.
In help of the brand new assortment, Laufey took over the Grammy Museum’s Ray Charles Terrace in downtown Los Angeles this week for Drop: Laufey – A Profit Program, a presentation that blended new music, candid storytelling, and a contact of star energy, as Selena Gomez watched on.
Laufey Land, as she calls it, captured the creativeness of the music enterprise. Sources instructed Billboard that she sparked a multimillion-dollar bidding struggle in 2023 amongst document labels which have hardly ever seen a lot industrial potential in a jazz-adjacent act. She went on to signal a world label cope with AWAL that allowed her to retain possession of her work.
Raised between Iceland and the Washington, D.C., space, Laufey (full title Laufey Lín Jónsdóttir) grew up surrounded by classical musicians, and counts Chopin, Liszt, Baker, Fitzgerald, and Vacation amongst her influences.
As her story grew, Laufey was named in Forbes’ 30 Below 30 record, was considered one of TIME’s 2025 Ladies of the 12 months, she has bought out the Hollywood Bowl, Radio Metropolis Music Corridor, and London’s Royal Albert Corridor; carried out backed by the LA Phil, the Nationwide Symphony Orchestra, and the China Philharmonic Orchestra and is behind The Laufey Basis, which has the first mission of supporting younger musicians with the assets they want, particularly by way of youth orchestras, to achieve their full potential.
Stream A Matter of Time beneath.
