Lorde - Solar Power (August 20, 2021) Album • Page 45

It’s been a year since I announced the release of Solar Power. I can honestly say it has been the year with the highest highs and lowest lows I think I’ve ever experienced. It took people awhile to get the album — I still get emails every day from people who are just coming around to it now! — and that response was really confounding and at times painful to sit with at first. I learnt a ton about myself and how I’m perceived by making and releasing this album, and I feel significantly more connected and alive in my art practice and life than pretty much ever before. Sounds dry but it’s true!!! It’s been interesting as the year has progressed taking in works of art (movies, albums, TV shows, visual art) made in and around the pandemic, and feeling like most of them have a greater degree of interiority than others made by that artist before. You already know about my belief that artists work to metabolise collective feeling, and it makes sense to me that when the collective feeling of the past few years has consisted of long stretches of isolation, vulnerability, abject terror and existential questioning, those feelings would be reflected in the art of the times. I was sitting with a friend recently drinking chai at a country house in England, she’s an artist too, and we got on to the topic of the album somehow. She said, it’s clearly one of those works that gets made between peaks, the kind that’s necessary for makers sometimes, no less precious, in fact, there can’t be peaks at all without such works. I think this is true of the record. I needed to go low, to roll a neon ball through tall grass and see what happened. Playing songs from SP live each night in what is undoubtedly my best live show ever is also an incredible feeling — it all makes sense there, both to you and me, in a new and vivid way. And thanks to SP, I’ve been able to work through some big personal stuff that was making it pretty difficult for me to do stuff like travel or play shows without getting completely overwhelmed. I used to sit alone in my hotel room on show days, binge watching Bake Off, Ambien and Vitamin D on the bedside, my skin pale, my stomach knotted in fear. These days, I’m out the door in every city, walking for miles, eating gelato after dark, finding tiny wine bars, trying on vintage clothes down secret streets, laughing with friends, and playing better and better shows for you as a result. So yeah. Thankyou for all of it.

 

this has become my favorite album from her

 

Weirdly I kind of feel that way too, even though I didn’t even like it until I saw her live earlier this year. Melodrama comes close, but this might get the edge

 

Melodrama>Pure Heroine>The Love Club EP>Solar Power

 

same, though I still do like this album

 

Melodrama is easily her best album

 

Ribs is her best song though

 

Seeing this album live really made it work for me in a way it didn’t before

 

Lorde was absolutely majestic tonight in Oslo - she seemed so happy and full of life the whole show, and was truly appreciative at being here again. Fav songs were Hard Feelings and Supercut

 

I can’t wait for the retrospective review on this album in 20 years. It’s been one of my biggest go to’s this summer

 

Hopefully an album full of bangers

 

I've got a good feeling about the next one

 

her little sister has a song out this week

 

Damn that's wild, I'll definitely give a listen

 

Didn’t even know she had a sister - yeah will for sure listen

 

Sounds just like Lorde, but still dope

 

haha wow.... that sounds exactly like Lorde