Solar Power Lorde

• 1 The Path 03:41
• 2 Solar Power 03:13
• 3 California 03:12
• 4 Stoned at the Nail Salon 04:26
• 5 Fallen Fruit 03:58
• 6 Secrets from a Girl (Who's Seen it All) 03:39
• 7 The Man with the Axe 04:16
• 8 Dominoes 02:03
• 9 Big Star 02:47
• 10 Leader of a New Regime 01:33
• 11 Mood Ring 03:45
• 12 Oceanic Feeling 06:40
• Total Runtime 43:13

Info for Solar Power

There’s more than a hint of 1960s flower child influence on Lorde’s third album. Solar Power is almost a work of pastiche, awash with nostalgia for a time the singer, real name Ella Yelich O’Connor, never experienced. The result is a mixed bag – sometimes beautiful and compelling, sometimes bordering on a caricature of itself.

“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.

"Solar Power is a perfectly fine record with admirable production quality, and its beachy, relaxed vibes will surely soundtrack the warmer months for many. But, lacking the power and passion of her past releases, it ultimately feels like an anticlimax after years of waiting to see what the enterprising, creative pop star would do next. Given her penchant for reinvention, though, maybe something more surprising and invigorating lurks around the corner." (Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, smh.com.au)

Lorde

Ella Yelich-O'Connor
Lorde (born Ella Yelich-O’Connor in Devonport, Auckland, New Zealand on November 7, 1996) is a pop singer. Employing a stylish mix of arty, confessional bedroom pop and club-ready electro-rock that has drawn comparisons to the likes of Grimes, Lana Del Rey, and Sky Ferreira, New Zealand singer/songwriter Ella Yelich-O'Connor, who goes by the stage name Lorde, became an Internet sensation at the age of 16 with the video for her debut single, "Royals," which garnered over 750,000 hits on YouTube. Her 2013 debut EP, The Love Club, hit the number one spot on both the New Zealand and Australian charts. The New Zealander continued her meteoric rise to fame in 2013 with a growing fan base and began sessions for her debut album, Pure Heroine, with producer Joel Little.

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