GRAMMY®-winning Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Laufey is announcing new music with Bewitched: The Goddess Edition, due for release April 26 on AWAL. The expanded edition features four brand-new original songs that Laufey wrote in the wake of finishing her 2023 critically celebrated album Bewitched. The lead single “Goddess” is available now. Of the new single, Laufey notes, “Goddess is my most honest song yet. I wrote it alone at my piano after feeling like someone had fallen in love with the version of me they’d seen on stage, just to find that I wasn’t what they projected once I was off stage. They deemed me to no longer be a shiny thing when the glamor wore off, reduced to skin and bone.”
The Goddess Edition will also be available on vinyl, cassette, and CD. The expanded package includes dark blue vinyl, an updated booklet, and a custom board game. Exclusive editions will be available at Urban Outfitters with transparent green vinyl, Barnes & Noble with a poster and light blue vinyl, and on Amazon with cloudy clear vinyl.
Laufey is currently in the midst of the European leg of her sold-out “Bewitched: The Goddess Tour.” The entirely sold out North American dates will kick off in April and will make multiple stops at notable venues such as Masonic Theatre in San Francisco, The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Radio City Music Hall in New York City, The Anthem in Washington DC, as well as an anticipated performance at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic. See below for full tour routing.
2023 was a standout year for Laufey. Bewitched was the biggest debut for a jazz album on Spotify in history. It debuted at #2 on Spotify’s Global and U.S. Album Charts, as well as #23 on the Billboard 200, #1 on Billboard’s Independent Albums Chart, and #1 on Current Traditional Jazz Albums Chart. The album’s hit single “From The Start” is now RIAA-certified Gold. This February, Laufey won the 2024 GRAMMY® for “Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.” She also performed “From The Start” at the award show’s Premiere Ceremony and played cello alongside Billy Joel during the performance of his new single “Turn The Lights Back On” during the telecast.
Los Angeles-based Laufey (pronounced lāy-vāy) was raised between Reykjavík and Washington, D.C. with annual visits to Beijing. In 2020, while still a student at Berklee College of Music, Laufey released her debut single “Street by Street,” which went on to top the Icelandic radio charts. In 2022, she released her debut full-length, Everything I Know About Love, which reached #1 on Billboard’s Alternative New Artist Album chart, featuring the popular track “Valentine” that peaked at #1 on the Spotify Jazz Chart. Today, she has over 1.7 billion streams across all platforms and is the biggest streaming artist from Iceland in the world.