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Laufey has announced a new album, A Matter of Time. The Icelandic Chinese singer and composer's follow-up to 2023's Bewitched arrives August 22 (via Vingolf/AWAL). Aaron Dessner produced the LP alongside Spencer Stewart. 'Tough Luck,' which leads the album, is 'a fiery song about love gone wrong,' Laufey said in press materials. 'I wanted to reveal an angrier side of myself—a side that this unfortunate relationship brought out in me.' Listen to that below.
Of the album, Laufey added, 'People expect a pretty facade of girly clothes, fantastical stories, and romantic music. This time, I was interested in seeing how I could draw out the most flawed parts of myself and look at them directly in the mirror.' Check out her tour dates with various orchestras below.
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05-27 Mexico City, Mexico - The Teatro Metropólitan 05-31 São Paolo, Brazil - Popload Festival 07-30 Norfolk, VA - Virginia Arts Festival at Chartway Arena* 07-31 Norfolk, VA - Virginia Arts Festival at Chartway Arena* 08-02 Chautauqua, NY - Chautauqua Institution† 08-03 Chautauqua, NY - Chautauqua Institution† 08-07 Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center‡ 08-09 Saratoga Springs, NY - Saratoga Performing Arts Center§
* with The Virginia Symphony Orchestra † with The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra ‡ with The Cleveland Orchestra § with The Philadelphia Orchestra
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His magic, however, presses my arms back, pinning them together above my head. 'What are you doing?' I ask, wriggling. I feel like meat on a spit. Memnon pauses his work to look up, and I can't help but notice the obvious desire in his eyes and the soft smirk on his lips. 'Keeping you at my mercy.' I'm reminded then that this ritual is about capture and surrender. I will make your surrender memorable, he said. Memnon's arms pull my thighs apart as much as possible, and then he leans in. No longer is he interested in teasing me. His tongue dips into my opening, and then his mouth finds that point right above it, the one that makes my muscles tense and pleasure coil in my belly. He sucks on that fold, his teeth lightly scraping over it every so often. I writhe and shift beneath him, my hips tilting uselessly, my arms tugging at their magical bindings. I want to feel him—my hands in his hair, his heavy body against mine, my heels dragging down his back. 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