Lorde is already exhausting at work on her follow-up to 2021’s Photo voltaic Energy album. “It has taken me fairly some time [to start working on it],” she advised Ensemble journal. “I imply, I just do take a very long time… I do a whole lot of analysis, I write quite a bit down.”
She then broke down her workflow for her as-yet-untitled venture, saying, “Type of a giant chunk of labor earlier than I really begin writing music. So yeah, that’s been a extremely huge a part of it. It’s been tremendous thrilling and I really feel enthusiastic about what’s coming.” Lorde additionally gave some hope that it might not be one other 4 years of ready, because it was between her second and third albums.
“You understand, it’s my intention, it’s at all times my intention, to maneuver as rapidly as I f—ng can after which that finally ends up taking totally different varieties,” she mentioned. “However this one, I actually am making an attempt to. I don’t need to wait, you already know, so take from that what you’ll.”
And whereas she didn’t share any particulars about who she’s working with or what sound followers can count on, it appears unlikely that we’ll hear it this yr… perhaps. “Something might occur. Let’s see!,” she mentioned.
Again in September throughout her headlining set at Los Angeles’ Primavera Sound pageant, the singer started teasing her subsequent period. “Who is aware of what’s going to come subsequent?” she mentioned whereas working by the themes of her three studio albums. “Effectively, I do know. And also you’ll know someday quickly.”
Although Energy was polarizing for some followers (and critics), Lorde advised the journal that she took the response in stride, accepting that some individuals appreciated it and a few didn’t. “I feel the third album is like at all times an actual… you do form of cross over in a method, you already know, you’re not new any extra, and likewise you need perhaps various things,” she mentioned. “I had actual issues I wished that I simply needed to do with that album, and I really feel extra clear and calm for having finished that.”
She additionally defined why after the cycle of recording and touring her 2017 sophomore album Melodrama every part felt… “too huge… It felt like individuals believed in me an excessive amount of or one thing. I used to be like, I’m 20 or 21, that is my interest. You understand, I felt actually spooked by it. And so to form of go down this bizarre street and for individuals to have completely no thought what’s going to return subsequent, that’s tremendous cool to me. I’m stoked that I don’t really feel pigeonholed at this stage.“
Lorde is gearing up for the newest spherical of dates on her Photo voltaic Energy tour, with dates in her native New Zealand kicking off on Feb. 21 in Wellington and gigs in Australia slated to run by a March 18 gig in Perth at Belvoir Amphitheater.
