There’s a gaggle of young artists bringing a new audience to jazz, but no one is doing it with as much pop pizzazz as Laufey. With two albums and a Grammy to her name by the time she was 24, she could have rested on her laurels. Instead the Icelandic-Chinese singer-songwriter, now 26, has taken the time to fall in and out of love, and produce a gorgeous third album full of longing and more than a little feminine ire.
A Matter of Time is pop in its piquant confessional style, underpinned by her classical composition skill, and makes the most of her maturing alto voice with show tune styling. Time is a central theme of the album, obviously. Not just its passing, but the effect that has on relationships and the disorientation of your twenties, feeling like it’s standing still and speeding up all at once.
