Lorde, Melodrama
The second album from the New Zealand upstart is "a modern pop record that prizes old-school intimacy," writes Will Hermes. "Lorde's writing and fantastically intimate vocals, ranging from her witchy, unprocessed low-register warbles to all sorts of digitized masks, make it matter. She has said the album's conceit is a house party and its unfolding dramas;
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