Driving Down Sunset’s A Terrible Sight

Laufey “California and Me”

Laufey is at the center of an interesting musical venn diagram – a songwriter and performer with roots in classical who mainly writes jazz vocal song with the lyrical POV of a contemporary indie singer-songwriter. “California and Me” is a song at the dead center of that diagram, a jazz ballad with old Hollywood orchestration and a vocal that laments the end of a situationship with great sadness but also a little humor in the more clever lines. I admire the elegance of her craft, she’s so precise and economical and she tugs on a listener’s heartstrings in a way that’s very gentle but highly effective. “California and Me” is calibrated to make you feel the exact flavor of loneliness she’s feeling, but it’s nuanced enough to get that as sad as she is about feeling left alone part of her feels optimistic about whatever may come her way in the wake of this. Close a door, open a window…

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