Laufey has returned with a brand new single and particulars of a second studio album – watch ‘Bewitched’, from an album of the identical title, beneath.
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The brand new album follows the Icelandic-Chinese language artist’s debut LP, ‘All the pieces I Know About Love’, which got here out final yr. It’s due out on September 8.
“‘Bewitched’ is a love tune,” she stated of the album’s title observe. “I needed the Philharmonia Orchestra as an instance that feeling if you’re first falling in love with somebody, and for it to emulate the ideas that run via your head after an ideal first date.”
Of the album, she added: “It is a love album, whether or not or not it’s a love in direction of a buddy or a lover or life.
“The primary album additionally touched quite a bit on issues like transferring out of my childhood dwelling and transferring into a brand new metropolis for the primary time—being an grownup. With this one, I’ve skilled just a little bit extra of that, and I’m writing concerning the magic within the love of being younger.”
Watch ‘Bewitched’ beneath.
Final yr, Laufey shared a brand new dwell album from her reveals at Reykjavik’s Harpa Live performance Corridor titled ‘A Night time At The Symphony’.
‘A Night time At The Symphony’ additionally options beforehand launched tracks off her 2021 EP ‘Typical of Me’ in addition to reworks of Hoagy Carmichael and Ned Washington’s ‘The Nearness of You’, Cole Porter’s ‘Everytime We Say Goodbye’ and Icelandic jazz artist Elly Vilhjálms’ “Ég Veit Þú Kemur.
‘All the pieces I Know About Love’ was launched in August 2022, and featured the rising artist’s breakthrough observe ‘Valentine’, which peaked at Quantity One on the Spotify Jazz Chart.
In a four-star assessment of the album, NME stated: “The lyrics give us one in every of ‘All the pieces I Know About Love’’s major delights: Laufey’s candid self-expression wrapped within the dreamy lilt of the previous jazz requirements. She continues to bridge histories and genres inside music with ease.”
