Bewitched by Laufey

Bewitched, Laufey's second album, arrived through AWAL in September 2023, and it plays like a love letter to love itself: crushes, friendships, lovers and heartbreak, all turned over with the same wide-eyed care. The Icelandic singer, a Berklee-trained cellist who soloed with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra as a teenager, wrote most of it with Spencer Stewart, and the two produced it alongside Dan Wilson and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

The result is jazz pop at its most velvet: hushed ballads, swooning strings and a warm, unhurried voice that makes something decades old sound freshly minted. Critics fell for that pull between past and present, and for her chops. "From the Start" became her first song to chart abroad, the album took Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the Grammys, and a deluxe Goddess Edition followed in April 2024.

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