After breaking onto the charts of her native Iceland with the updated yet still anachronistic vocal-era stylings of her 2022 full-length debut, Everything I Know About Love, Laufey (Laufey Lin Jonsdottir) doubles down on her WWII-age-evoking approach to elegant, only slightly left-of-center adult pop with the more ambitious Bewitched. It became Laufey's first album to chart internationally, including an appearance in the Top 25 of the Billboard 200. Highlighted by a graceful collaboration with London's Philharmonia Orchestra ("California and Me") and the bubbly bossa tune "From the Start," Bewitched offers up 13 tender, decade-defying originals in all, alongside a seductive, loyal version of the Erroll Garner standard "Misty." ~ Marcy Donelson