For years, the music of pop’s most introspective protégé has been a rock for the gays and girls. Her healing new album asks you to look beyond her.
There was a promise of no radio hits on here, and Lorde isn’t lying, but she has managed to form many an earworm melody. “Secret from a Girl ” is the closest the album has to a pop hit post-“Solar Power”, a melon-fresh, harmonious, weird sonic letter Lorde has written to her younger self. “‘Member what you thought was grief before you got the call? / Baby girl, no one’s gonna feel the pain for you,” she sings.
Even the more thematically despondent-sounding tracks aren’t as morose as you might expect. The only element of glossy artifice on the whole record, in fact, is the growling 808 drum that appears midway through “Fallen Fruit”, a track about the effect our elders have had on a planet they won’t have to deal with in its most tragic, impending chapter.
For those who wanted Lorde to return with an album that would hit you hard, making you feel seen on first listen,won’t be it. Instead, see it as a germinating seed that demands time and investment. First impressions might deceive you. Lethargic, slow or ponderous it may seem at first, in reality, Lorde’s energy simply courses through us differently. The jugular-hit euphoria her music carried is a slow, long draw of a joint now.
On the album’s bright and beautiful closer, “Oceanic Feeling”, Lorde contemplates home, family, her wild past and unpredictable future -- but more so respects the place she’s in right now: “Grateful for this offering, and all the living things / Under the sun,” she sings.
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