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10.0
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10.0 |
The Skinny
Laufey conjures a fairytale world woven from jazz, pop and a ticking clock
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Independent
With longtime producer Spencer Stewart and new collaborator Aaron Dessner of The National, Laufey has achieved the kind of confessional storytelling that makes Taylor Swift so relatable
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10.0
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NME
The jazz-pop star begins to unravel her fairytale world on her third album, letting darkness creep into her sparkling sound
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9.0
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9.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit
It makes for the boldest chapter in her artistic story yet
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8.0
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8.0 |
Far Out
More modern standards from a future great
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8.0
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8.0 |
PopMatters
Laufey’s A Matter of Time has many charms. Like a pretty girl who denies her attractiveness, she may try too hard to convince one of what’s not true
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8.0
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Clash
Cements Laufey as a generational talent and far from simply a modern jazz darling
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8.0
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8.0 |
Uncut
Although 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. Print edition only
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Spectrum Culture
NEW
Between Laufey’s desire to break out of the boundaries she’s established for herself and Dessner’s ultramodern but tasteful production, A Matter of Time marks a successful transitional period for the artist
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7.2
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Pitchfork
The Icelandic singer not only invokes the traditions of the Great American Songbook; she indulges, interrogates, and goofs on them, adding a welcome spark to her retro mannerisms
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
This talented throwback-pop flag-waiver has her own spin on the cycle of limerence, love, and loss
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