Laufey has covered Joni Mitchell‘s classic track ‘Both Sides Now’ for a new live session – you can check it out below.
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The Icelandic-Chinese artist and former NME Cover star delivered an emotional, orchestral rendition of the 1969 song for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room Month earlier this week.
She performed her heartfelt version alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra at London’s legendary Maida Vale Studios.
Laufey also treated listeners to an outing of her new single ‘How I Get’, as well as ‘Lover Girl’ from her third album ‘A Matter Of Time’ (2025). You can watch all three performances below, and listen back to the full set via BBC Sounds.
‘How I Get’ will appear on a forthcoming deluxe edition of ‘A Matter Of Time’, titled ‘A Matter Of Time: The Final Hour’. The expanded collection is due for release on April 10 – pre-order/pre-save here.
Laufey is currently out on a European and UK arena tour, which includes two shows at The O2 in London next month (find any remaining tickets here). She’ll also appear at Coachella 2026 this spring, and Rock In Rio in Brazil in September.
Speaking to NME about making ‘A Matter Of Time’ last year, Laufey explained: “There are parts of me that come out in this album that I didn’t dare to put out in the last few.
“The way the album’s sequenced is it starts with this hope and a little bit of fear of love – it’s a first date. And then as the album progresses, it falls more and more into anxiety, and falls apart.”
Laufey recently won a Grammy for the record in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category, after picking up the same award for 2023’s ‘Bewitched’.
In a four-star review of ‘A Matter Of Time’, NME wrote: “‘A Matter Of Time’ is just as gorgeous as its predecessors, but this time, there’s more darkness shadowing the gleam.
“Sometimes that manifests in Laufey’s vocals or lyrics – over the bossa nova swing (and Clairo backing vocals) of ‘Mr. Eclectic’, she elegantly eviscerates men trying to ‘woo and win‘ her. ‘You think you’re so interesting,’ she sings with an audible eye roll and mocking smirk, putting pretentious posers who ‘think you’re so poetic / Quoting epics and ancient prose‘ firmly in their place.”
Laufey will release a new children’s book, Mei Mei The Bunny, on April 21. It tells “the story of a little bunny who dreams of making the world happy with her music”.
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