It’s only a matter of time before you fall in love with Laufey’s new deluxe album.

A Matter of Time Album cover (Aiden Domasco / The Puma Prensa)

By Aiden Domasco, Staff Writer

Laufey (pronounced “lay-vay” in American English) is an Icelandic jazz-pop artist. She is a two-time Grammy winner, and she has released three full-length studio albums. She released her third studio album, A Matter of Time, on 22 August 2025, which received Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 68th Grammys.

Following the release of A Matter of Time, Laufey has gone on tour throughout North America and Europe, and is expected to tour in Asia and Oceania in the later months of 2026. She performed here in the Bay Area on the 29 and 30 September 2025 in Oakland and San Francisco, the latter of which was a sold-out venue.

The new deluxe album, released on 10 April 2026, was stylized as A Matter of Time: The Final Hour, and it adds four new songs.

The song “Madwoman” was the first of the four listed, and is the only one of the four with a music video, which was released three days after the album on 13 April 2026. The video’s main cast fully consists of mixed-race white-Asians, or “Wasians,” just like Laufey. The video stars Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu, actor Hudson Williams, Megan Skiendiel from the pop girl-group KATSEYE, and actress Lola Tung.

The remaining three tracks, “How I Get,” “I Wait, I Wait, I Wait,” and “I’ll Forget About You (In Time)” all maintain Laufey’s reputation for sad and melancholy music. “How I Get” focuses on how Laufey believes she is perceived and her own vulnerability, while the latter two focus on the ending of a relationship and the closure that comes with it.

As a whole, the whole theme of time within the album continues with the addition of these four new songs, as now with the whole album completed, it starts off with the beginning of a relationship, and after a course of events, ends with closure, fully closing the cycle of one that has failed.

For those who have never listened to a Laufey album in full, this is definitely a good starting point. And for those who have not started listening yet, its never “Too Little, Too Late” to begin.