Laufey Begins Her Next Album Era With ‘Silver Lining’ Single and Music Video

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Laufey is offering fans what is believed to be 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 and a Jazz Fest appearance.