The Daily Spin, April 11
Laufey | Everything I Know About Love
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
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Album: Everything I Know About Love (2022)
Artist: Laufey
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In its jazzier moments, Everything I Know About Love is a gorgeous Collier-esque collection, the minute moments of a life in love that I have grown to know and appreciate through my own experiences. With gorgeous vocal tones over sweeping string arrangements and gently weaving strings, Laufey navigates falling in love with a poet’s hand, deft lyricism striking raw at the heart of the innately human nature of love.
Jacob Collier is an excellent comparison here, I think - his works in the Djesse series (which are all phenomenal, by the way, and we will be reviewing them later on) at their calmest tend to look a lot like this album. It’s comfortably soft jazz, just easy enough to envision tapping your foot to it in a smoky bar, the sort of scene that springs from the pages of a book or from the prelude to a movie’s emotional final act.
As it steps away from jazz at times, I think it falls away from what makes it so very exceptional, but Laufey’s talent is broad enough to comfortably ensure that this is, at its heart, an incredibly enjoyable album.
Rating: 8.5/10
Best Tracks: What Love Will Do to You
Worst Tracks: Valentine