Laufey is offering fans the first taste of her next project with Thursday’s release of “Silver Lining,” a new single and music video that prefaces her third album, which is expected some time later this year.
“‘Silver Lining’ is a love song about being able to set your true personality free when you fall in love,” Laufey said in announcing the single. “Your inner child comes out and you are emboldened by lust. Even if it takes you to hell, at least you’re with your partner.”
The music video, which was shot on 35mm film, is directed by Jason Lester, who handled the same duties for Laufey’s “From the Start” and “Santa Baby” singles.
The video has Laufey attending an initially gentle, eventually more chaotic masquerade ball — amid what is described as “‘Rite of Spring’-inspired choreography” — before things turn into a “surreal hellscape, plunging Laufey into a chaos of her own making,” as the announcement describes it. All ends peacefully with a romantic closing image, before things get too hellish.
The official press release does not specifically mention a third album being on the way, so further announcements are surely coming down the pike from Laufey, who has also not yet announced any touring for 2025 other than a handful of symphonic summer dates.
In any case, Laufey has made no secret of the fact that she has been at work for a while on a third album. In late 2024, she talked with Variety in conjunction for being honored as crossover artist of the year at the annual Hitmakers event, and said then she was right in the midst of recording her followup to the Grammy-winning “Bewitched.” She indicated it would have some surprising wrinkles but not be likely to be viewed as a radical left turn.
She described herself to Variety at the time as “super, super excited about this next one … I feel like this is the first year where I am needing to look for some sort of growth. I never want to stay stagnant, but also want to stay true to myself and true to my sound. You know, there are so many incredible musicians who do a certain thing in this day and age, and I realize that I serve a certain side of that, and I definitely want to continue doing that. I’m not going to do anything insanely different, but an artist always wants to grow. So that’s kind of the balance I’m trying to strike right now, in a very happy and exciting way — not in like a scary way, just in a ‘this is a really exciting puzzle ahead’ way, if you will. … I think there will be a song for everyone on every album that I do. I don’t want to be too shocking, but I always want to keep my brain (engaged), and to keep myself fed and my soul fed, I always need to add a little bit something new, so as to not be bored.”
Laufey recently appeared on a cover of Time as one of the magazine’s 2025 Women of the Year.
In December 2024, she was seen in movie theaters nationwide with an Imax rendering of her show at the Hollywood Bowl last summer alongside the LA Phil. That performance is being released in LP form for Record Store Day this month.
While these concerts may end up being just the tip of the iceberg, the following are the 2025 tour dates — mostly in conjunction with orchestras — that Laufey currently has on the books:
April 24-May 4—New Orleans Jazz Fest—New Orleans, LA
May 31—Popload Festival—Sao Paolo, Brazil
July 30—Virginia Arts Festival at Chartway Arena—Norfolk, VA*
July 31—Virginia Arts Festival at Chartway Arena—Norfolk, VA*
August 2—Chautauqua Institution—Chautauqua, NY†
August 3—Chautauqua Institution—Chautauqua, NY†
August 7—Blossom Music Center—Cuyahoga Falls, OH‡
August 9—Saratoga Performing Arts Center—Saratoga Springs, NY§
*with The Virginia Symphony Orchestra
†with The Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra
‡with The Cleveland Orchestra
§with The Philadelphia Orchestra
