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Aug 21, 2025From the lovely momentum of “Carousel”, complete with fairground chimes, to the shivery, spellbinding flair of “Forget-Me-Not”. She’s as compelling as Julie London on “Silver Linings”, as heart-rending as Sam Phillips on the bold, surprising “Sabotage”. It’s sublime.
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Aug 20, 2025If previous releases made Laufey Gen Z’s jazz-pop queen, A Matter of Time affirms that title.
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Aug 21, 2025Laufey colours both inside and outside her established lines to create a joyful tension on A Matter of Time. It makes for the boldest chapter in her artistic story yet.
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Sep 22, 2025A lush and finely rendered follow-up to her Grammy-winning breakthrough album, 2023's Bewitched.
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Aug 22, 2025‘A Matter Of Time’ is just as gorgeous as its predecessors, but this time, there’s more darkness shadowing the gleam.
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Aug 20, 2025It goes in constantly engaging directions and challenges what we expect from her as an artist and writer. It should please long-term fans and offer a fine jumping-on point for those who’ve not explored her work before.
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Aug 20, 2025What the album lacks in sonic consistency, as the tracklist leaps from pop anthems to nostalgic soul balladry, it makes up for in raw passion and artistic experimentation.
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Aug 20, 2025A Matter of Time has many charms. Like a pretty girl who denies her attractiveness, Laufey may try too hard to convince one of what’s not true. Her loveliness shines through her disavowals.
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UncutAug 20, 2025Although this LA-based Chinese-Icelander gas woven a loose temporal theme through the loungey chamber pop of her third album, it's the waspish lyrical sting in the tail of these songs that sets her apart. [Oct 2025, p.29]
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Aug 20, 2025Aaron Dessner helps Laufey change wardrobe (on “Castle in Hollywood” and “A Cautionary Tale”) to lean into less mannered storytelling. But formal dress suits her best, at least on this set, which is the fullest expression of the Cinemascope songcraft that’s got her selling out arenas.
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Aug 21, 2025Laufey’s full-bodied alto handles the song’s ["Clockwork"] brief beautifully, her voice darting nervously at first then blossoming into a full-bore croon as she becomes more assured. But it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
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