Fortunate followers at Lorde‘s Sziget Competition present in Budapest Monday night time (Aug. 14) had been handled to 2 very particular surprises: a efficiency of one of many indie pop icon’s unreleased songs, in addition to a visitor look from Caroline Polachek.
Lorde has been previewing two unreleased songs at her pageant reveals over the previous week or so, which followers have titled “Silver Moon” and “Invisible Ink,” respectively. At her newest live performance, she sang the previous observe, asking the gang to “shut your eyes and really feel it with me.”
“Enable me to set the scene/ Once I met you, I’d by no means achieved ecstasy,” she sang, standing in entrance of a large solar prop. “Only a woman with a dream, bear in mind?/ Again then I nonetheless had knowledge enamel.”
The efficiency follows a cryptic Instagram publish from Lorde final week, through which she appeared to tease {that a} future venture was slowly taking form. “These instances are lovely they usually freak me out and there’s a lot to inform you,” she wrote in a publish following her Aug. 9 Øya Competition in Oslo. “No this isn’t the beginning of something on the market, simply need u to know there’s a lightweight on inside me .. present it to you quickly.”
Sadly for followers of “Silver Moon” and “Invisible Ink,” nevertheless, it doesn’t appear like the “Temper Ring” singer has any plans to launch them anytime quickly. Based on screenshots, Lorde knowledgeable a commenter on Instagram that she’d merely determined to set the tracks “free from my laptop computer,” as she figured they had been “lovely and enjoyable” for her Photo voltaic Energy run of pageant reveals.
On the brilliant facet, followers of each Lorde and Caroline Polachek bought to benefit from the final crossover when Polachek joined the “Royals” musician onstage in Budapest, serving to to rework Lorde’s 2017 hit “Inexperienced Gentle” into an electrical duet. “Caroline Polachek, all people!” Lorde cheered, hugging Polachek on the finish of their efficiency.
Watch Lorde carry out “Silver Moon” in Budapest here.