Lorde - Solar Power (August 20, 2021) Album • Page 6

It's on Spotify now.

 

Hot damn!

 

That she recognizes that she needs to shift gears and that she is capable of doing it seamlessly......it bodes well.

 

Yep, it's so instantly Lorde but wouldn't fit with her first two albums. Queen of progress.

 

Album is also called Solar Power

 

There’s someone I want you to meet.
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. Her skin is glowing, her lovers are many. I’m completely obsessed with her, and soon you will be too.


It’s my divine pleasure to be introducing you, at long last, to my third studio album, SOLAR POWER.


The album is a celebration of the natural world, an attempt at immortalising the deep, transcendent feelings I have when I’m outdoors. In times of heartache, grief, deep love, or confusion, I look to the natural world for answers. I’ve learnt to breathe out, and tune in. This is what came through.


The first song, also called SOLAR POWER and written and produced by myself and Jack, is the first of the rays. It’s about that infectious, flirtatious summer energy that takes hold of us all, come June (or December, if you’re a Southern Hemisphere baby like me but I know that’s literally IMPOSSIBLE for you all to wrap your little heads around so don’t worry about it!!).


I made everything with friends here in New Zealand. My best mate Ophelia took the cover photo, lying on the sand as I leapt over her, both of us laughing. The director who made my first ever music video, Joel, helped me create the videos, building an entire cinematic universe that I can’t wait for you to see. I made something that encapsulates where I’m from — my family, my girlfriends, my outdoors, my constant ruminations, and my unending search for the divine.


There’s SO much more detail to come — a truly comical amount of detail, honestly. You can look to the natural calendar for clues. I’m trying to listen to what’s out there more, and the vibe I got was that you’re ready for this, that you need it. I want this album to be your summer companion, the one you pump on the drive to the beach. The one that lingers on your skin like a tan as the months get cooler again.


Today’s the only solar eclipse of the year, did you know that? Feels right.


LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LET’S GO


SOLAR POWER TODAY — TOMORROW — FOREVER


ELLA XX

 

So, we're like, getting the album in like a month or so?

 

Just the cutest

 

oh my god this song is so good

 

this is... not good.

 

I’m in love with this but I know that some people are totally going to reject this because the aesthetic of beach bumming annoys certain people. But idk, I hope people are ready for something like this after such a dour 2020. Feels like the absolute right play.

 

its fine

 

This is really dope

 

Song rules. After a few listens I really dig it!

 

There's a rumor out there we are getting the album in a week but take that with a grain of salt

 

I hope its the kind of rumor thats a true rumor

 

My god what a song

 

the song structure is just nuts, once the full band comes in it just keeps escalating musically while not bringing back and of the chorus or verses or anything from the first half, just repetitive "solar power" over the music.

 

I’m liking the song more after a few listens. Kind of harkens back to her first album a bit sonically. Or I can at least see a through line there.

Really hope we get the whole thing on the 21st.

 

Vinyl preorder when

 

Based on her long message above, I think there's a good chance that's true

 

lol

 

Idk how much “I want you to have the album for summer” is meant for American fans but that could be a clue that it’s coming real quick