★★★★★
PICK OF THE WEEK Pulsing Tomas Barfod Feat Nina K (Secretly Canadian) Reading this on mobile? Click here to view A weird, uncomfortable track where love is presented, not as Ovaltine warmth spreading through your insides, but as a cold, unconsented invasion. Nina K sounds weak, "heavy with love", before entering into a clinical lovemaking that matches the hospital sterility of Tomas Barfod's onomatopoeic beats...
- www.theguardian.com
2014-02-14
★★★★★
In the ten months since she released her debut single, the insta-classic "Royals," Lorde has become the latest incarnation of a dying breed: the ubiquitous pop star, the rare 21st-century artist able to hopscotch right across a fragmented media landscape toward an inescapable presence on the top of the hill. This, in itself, is unremarkable...
- cokemachineglow.com
2014-02-05
★★★★★
Lorde- 'Pure Heroine'
She's smart, opinionated and an exciting new voice in modern pop. But the New Zealander's debut doesn't quite live up to the hype
Album Info
Release Date: October 28, 2013 Producer: Joel Little Label: Virgin/ EMI
6 / 10
Ella Yelich-O'Connor's music discusses life in an affluent Nowheresville in New Zealand with the unforced panache only a pouting 16-year-old can manage...
- www.nme.com
2013-10-30
★★★★★
Photo: Another month and another new favourite flavour. This time its Ella Maria Lani Yelich- O'Connor's (stage name Lorde) turn to cause the tongues to wag with a blend of dirty house pop music mixed with other ambient elements. Characterised by dirty lo-fi synth tunes set to processed beats and strong bass lines, its ridiculously a la mode.
But in that lies Pure Heroine's weakness...
- www.gigwise.com
2013-10-29
★★★★★
If Lana Del Rey was the "gangsta Nancy Sinatra", then 16-year-old Lorde is the hip-pop Diablo Cody: all Juno world-weary teen talk and, like, yeah-I'm-normal self-deprecation set to chilly James Blake beats.
When it works - as it does with crystalline perfection on the global hit "Royals" - it is a thing of beauty and wonder. When it doesn't - about half the time here - it is as meh as the bet-no-one-thought-of-that-before pun in the album's title...
- www.independent.co.uk
2013-10-29
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3LordePure HeroineVirgin EMI2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album Is Pure Heroine the most restrained pop release of 2013...
- www.theguardian.com
2013-10-27
★★★★★
The Lorde machine appeared to sweep Ella Yelich-O'Connor from the toast of New Zealand to a debut US number one with a disconcertingly smooth hand. Yet O'Connor's capacity to fill a chapter in the ongoing evolution of pop music, rather than just free-fall into the footnotes, is due to more than a serendipity of marketing and climate. A handful of incredible early tracks and blog-feed-to-broadsheet acclaim came after a sizeable gestation period for the young singer and songwriter...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-10-26
★★★★★
Lorde has been working with her record label since she was 12 years old. After being filmed performing at her school talent show, the New Zealander was quickly snapped up by Universal - developed with vocal lessons and teamed up with songwriters. At the age of 14, she started tentatively writing her own songs before working with co-writer and producer Joel Little for her 2012 EP release The Love Club...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-10-24
★★★★★
"Don't you think that it's boring how people talk?" runs the opening line of Lorde's debut album. And talk is what an awful lot of people have done about this 16 year old New Zealander who was signed to her record label aged 12 and projects star quality as brightly as she does world-weary ennui. And with a Number 1 single in the US, a well-documented Twitter spat with Miley Cyrus fans, and some verbal sideswipes at the likes of Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez, it's a fair guarantee that people...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-10-24
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