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Lorde

2 upcoming festivals

The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.

Lorde is the recording name of Ella Yelich-O'Connor, a singer and songwriter from Auckland, New Zealand. She emerged as a teenager with "Royals" and the album Pure Heroine, whose sparse, bass-heavy productions and detached, observational lyrics stood apart from the pop music around them. Melodrama followed with a fuller, piano-driven sound, and Solar Power moved towards acoustic guitar and lighter textures. Across the records she has worked closely with a small number of collaborators and kept a slow release schedule, with long gaps between albums. Her live sets favour dynamics and space, with quiet passages given as much weight as the choruses.

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