A Matter of Time by Laufey

A Matter of Time, the third album from Icelandic singer-songwriter Laufey, landed on 22 August 2025 through Vingolf Recordings and AWAL, and it finds the onetime teenage cello soloist loosening her grip on the jazz-preservation mission of her earlier records. Back with her longtime producer Spencer Stewart and bringing in the National's Aaron Dessner, she lets her jazz-pop and classical instincts bleed into something more exposed, where the arrangements swoon but the feelings don't always resolve.

The songs chew on friendships that fall apart, the nerves that come with falling for someone and a lot of late-night self-examination, and she has framed it as a chance to show the messier, less perfect parts of herself. "Silver Lining", "Tough Luck", "Lover Girl" and "Snow White" went out ahead of it, critics were won over, and it took Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 68th Grammys, the same prize Bewitched had won before it. An expanded edition, The Final Hour, followed on 10 April 2026.

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