Lorde - Pure Heroine Review

8/10

I see Ella Maria Lani Yelich-O’Connor, more commonly known as Lorde, as one of the best female singers out there. She is a proud feminist (if you follow my twitter or read my own blog, you will know that this makes me extremely happy) her hair is godly, she likes King Krule and she’s just cool all over really. Another thing is that she is only 16 (17 tomorrow actually)! Most 16(almost 17) year olds are probably revising for their GCSE’s or partying till the night’s end(although I know that this is mostly not true). 
Lorde’s first EP ‘The Love Club’ which came out in late 2012 was a success as it came in at number two in New Zealand and Australia charts. Her second EP ‘The Tennis Court EP’ was also a success and the single ‘Tennis Court’ debuted at number 1 in the New Zealand singles chart! 

Pure Heroine was released on 27th September this year (a day after my birthday!) and has recently been pasted all over iTunes. The album starts with the well known ‘Tennis Court’ which is very catchy and quite mysterious like most of Lorde’s songs. The opening line “Don’t you think that it’s boring how people talk” has left me confused. I choose to be left confused. ‘400 lux’ is a strange song and starts with an almost air-siren-sounding noise. Then the supposedly over-played ‘Royals’ is in third followed by ‘Ribs’, a slow soft piece which reminds me of the opening of a Grimes song. My personal favourite track ‘Buzzcut Season’ (now the free single of the week on iTunes!) is an echoey chant which breaks into very uplifting melodies, then falls back down into a kind of selfish-sounding few lines of lyrics which repeats. The whole album ends with the track ‘A World Alone’ which you can imagine being played when you’re with friends on a beach, the sun is setting and you really just don’t care about anything so you go and run into the sea. It feels like that to me anyway. 

Amy x