'Solar Power' seems anxious to shatter our expectations, to communicate that Lorde isn’t and maybe never was the figure many assumed she was. CraigSJ writes
Solar Power is honest; its truths just feel cloistered and distant sometimes. Photo: Lorde In 2013, the first time we heard Lorde’s voice creeping up scales like beachside waters rising at dusk in her debut single “Royal,” two qualities stuck out: her snarling dismissal of celebrity culture — born out of time spent in her quaint New Zealand bayside community of Devonport, just a ferry ride away from Auckland — and her tone, at once inviting and bewitching, half-whisper and half-snarl.
This summer, Lorde broke her silence to prepare her fans for the start of a new era: “There’s someone I want you to meet,” she wrote in a dispatch from her newsletter in June. “Her feet are bare at all times. She’s sexy, playful, feral, and free. She’s a modern girl in a deadstock bikini, in touch with her past and her future, vibrating at the highest level when summer comes around.
Solar Power is a record about escaping the tendrils of social media and modern tech and dropping out in the Timothy Leary sense. Opener “The Path” seats us at the scene of the 2016 Met Gala, where Lorde appeared with a broken arm and famously got several celebrities to sign her cast. The verses revel in the singer’s newfound freedom from such engagements.
That can make some of this music feel tonally disorienting. The tension between the cloying pep of “Solar Power,” the intentional emotional distance of “The Path,” and the volcanic angst of breakup songs like “The Man with the Axe” and “Dominoes” introduces an unevenness to the album. “California” doesn’t add much to the endless expanse of songs about Hollywood vapidness.
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