Laufey drops new EP

Laufey didn’t just add a bonus track and move on. On Friday, April 10, she released *A Matter of Time: The Final Hour* as a 19-song deluxe edition with four new songs, turning last year’s album into a larger final chapter instead of a quick add-on. (laufeymusic.com) Apple Music and Spotify both list *A Matter of Time: The Final Hour* as a 2026 release with 19 tracks, and Laufey’s own store says the expanded version is built around four new songs. That tells you this is a full deluxe campaign, not a one-song surprise drop. (music.apple.com) (open.spotify.com) (laufeymusic.com) The original album was already one of the biggest steps of her career. Amazon’s artist page says *A Matter of Time* came out in August 2025, reached the top five of the Billboard 200, and earned her a second Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. (amazon.com) That matters because Laufey has spent the last few years doing something unusual in pop: making string-heavy, jazz-leaning songs feel like internet-era fandom music. Her official materials describe her as an Icelandic-Chinese singer, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, and this release keeps that old-hollywood-meets-bedroom-diary lane intact. (laufeymusic.com) (australianmusician.com.au) The first new song getting the hard push is “Madwoman.” A lyric video for “Madwoman” appeared on YouTube on April 9, and outside coverage tied the full music video to Monday, April 13, with Warren Fu directing. (youtube.com) (australianmusician.com.au) The video rollout is pulling in names outside music too. Reports published on April 10 say the “Madwoman” video includes Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu and actor Hudson Williams, which gives the clip the feel of a mini casting event instead of a standard performance video. (msn.com) (gmanetwork.com) The timing is not random. Laufey’s official tour page shows her playing Coachella in Indio, California on April 12 and again on April 19, which puts a fresh deluxe release and a new video directly in front of the two biggest festival sets on her calendar this month. (laufeymusic.com) Coachella’s own site lists the 2026 festival across April 10 to 12 and April 17 to 19, and the festival announcement says YouTube is again the exclusive livestream partner for both weekends. So even people nowhere near the desert can watch whether the new songs make the set in real time. (coachella.com) (coachellavalley.com) That leaves fans watching for two very specific things over the next three days: whether “Madwoman” becomes the emotional centerpiece of the deluxe edition, and whether Laufey treats Coachella like a standard festival booking or like the live debut of this final chapter. On April 10, the release says she is still extending the same album story rather than closing the book on it. (laufeymusic.com 1) (laufeymusic.com 2)