The Daily Spin, October 23
Laufey | Bewitched
Welcome back to the Daily Spin, the series in which I review 365 albums during 2023.
Each album will be given a rating on a scale from 0 to 10. You can look at the entire set here. Additionally, you can check out a list of my favorite songs from each album right here.
Album: Bewitched (2023)
Artist: Laufey
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Laufey emits nothing but dreamy jazz throughout her second full-length. In theory, that should be a wonderful experience, something to pull an hour seamlessly from my fingertips, but in practice becomes a bit of an exhausting slog.
Having hit the big-time through her TikTok-friendly jazz covers of pop music, it’s not hard to see why she smashed through the ceiling in her ascendancy - a strong voice, just smoky enough to befit most jazz clubs, and an ear for strong instrumentation keep her well-tuned to the type of music she should be making.
It’s just that an hour of her music tends to feel much closer to three or four - there’s not enough energy there to sustain a long listening session of this kind of music outside of very specific scenarios - and unfortunately, I don’t exist in one of those. C’est la vie.
Rating: 7.3/10
Best Tracks: Nocturne
Worst Tracks: From The Start