Lorde Gives Update On Album Three In Newsletter Message
Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Written by Huw Baines
Lorde has offered a tantalising update on her new LP.
In an email newsletter sent to fans, the New Zealand alt-pop star detailed work in Auckland and Los Angeles with returning producer Jack Antonoff on the follow up to 2017’s ‘Melodrama’. “The work is so fucking good, my friend,” she wrote. “I am truly jazzed for you to hear it.”
Lorde’s previous communique discussed the death of her dog, Pearl, and the strain that had put on the writing process. She revisited the loss here, describing her surprise at finding some relief in the studio.
“The first three months of this year started as a blur, and began to sharpen,” she wrote. “It was summer, a time of year which is usually so clarifying and special to me, but I was grieving hard for Pearl, carrying it everywhere with me. I found a note in my phone from November which said:
I eat a grief sandwich
I wear a grief coat
I see a grief film.
"If you know how it feels to lose someone close, I’m sure that makes sense to you. Everything about you becomes a grief thing! The dreamy warm time of year I normally love so much — the beaches and the green fields — it all felt hollow without my boy beside me.
“I started going back to the studio again in December, just for something to do, and to my surprise, good things came out. Happy, playful things. I felt my melodic muscles flexing and strengthening. Jack came over to work in the studio in Auckland, and I went to LA. It flowed. A thing started to take shape. And then, of course, the world shut down. We’re still working away — Jack and I FaceTimed for over an hour this morning going over everything. But it’ll take a while longer.”
Lorde also wrote of her evolving relationship with touring following the end of her ‘Melodrama’ commitments. “I knew I needed a break from touring at the end of the last cycle,” she continued. “I was finding the combination of brutal stage fright and having no fixed home and no connection with what I ate or where I lived extremely grim.
"I needed to make some food, grow some stuff, go to the beach a bunch, finally acknowledge (and kick) my social media addiction. I wasn’t sure if I’d tour again for a long time. And I still don’t know what touring is gonna look like for me, sensitive sweet pea plant that I am. But I know now how excited I am to get back out there.”
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