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Gen-Z’s jazz star gets messy: Laufey on her third album ‘A Matter of Time’

By Allyson Shiffman

Credits at end. Photo: Jason Kim

While her millions of fans – the Lauvers – have long embraced Laufey for the singular artist she is, Laufey is just now embracing herself. Or all parts of herself, rather. With her third studio album, A Matter of Time, the Icelandic-Chinese artist gets messy, leaning into her full range of emotions and all the corners of her being. This is Laufey unlike you’ve ever seen her: unpolished and unfiltered. And it’s an utter delight