As a formally trained multi-instrumentalist and a pop starlet, Laufey has long seemed like the poster girl for everything the Grammys represent or hope to represent. (And by “long,” we mean the two years since her “Bewitched” album brought her to greater prominence, though her ascent seems like it dates back further than that.) So she was a natural fit for a return to the Grammy Museum this week, this time moving upstairs to the downtown L.A. facility’s slightly larger rooftop space. There, in conversation and song, she regaled 300 fans who had immediately sold out the space at an also-elevated price, all of them happy to catch her in the most intimate possible setting before she headlines two shows a block away at Crypto Arena this fall.
Her interlocutor for the occasion Wednesday