Laufey: Typical of Me (12" EP) [AWAL]

Why you'll love it

Typical of Me is where the Laufey story begins: seven jazz-pop songs written at Berklee with the stated aim of making jazz feel young again. She's since won Grammys and played to huge crowds around the world; this is the EP that started it all.

This edition

• 12" EP, 7 songs
• AWAL pressing
• Produced with Davin Kingston

About the album

Icelandic pop-jazz songstress Laufey had already competed on Iceland's Got Talent and The Voice Ísland as a teenager when she departed for the States to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, but her big "win" would eventually come in her dorm room. Laufey wrote most of her debut EP, Typical of Me, in her university residence room and recorded it with a classmate named Davin Kingston.

It was originally a self-published offering, but it drew so much acclaim and unexpected attention from the fringes of the mainstream that it got a proper vinyl pressing through AWAL. The young singer recorded Typical of Me with the stated intention of making jazz more accessible to young audiences and ... hey ... y'all know where Laufey stands today. She's doing alright. So: mission accomplished.

Also at Kops: more Laufey on vinyl · browse Modern Jazz

Tracklist

Listen

On AWAL, first out in 2021.