Lorde - Pure Heroine [Japan] (2014)

Artist: Lorde
Title Of Album: Pure Heroine [Japan]
Year Of Release: 2014 (2013)
Label (Catalog#): Universal Japan [UICO-1262]
Country: New Zealand
Genre: Electronic, Downtempo, Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 48:32
Full Size: 378 MB



Some of this may be due to age. Lorde, as any pre-release review or portrait helpfully illustrated, was only 16 when she wrote and recorded Pure Heroine with producer Joel Little, and an adolescent aggrievance and angst certainly underpin the songs here. Lorde favors a tragic romanticism, an all-or-nothing melodrama that Little accentuates with his alternately moody and insistent productions.
Where Lana Del Rey favors a studiously detached irony, Lorde pours it all out which, in itself, may be an act: her bedsit poetry is superficially more authentic but the music is certainly more pop, both in its construction -- there are big hooks in the choruses and verses -- and in the production, which accentuates a sad shimmer where everything is beautiful and broken.
There is a topical appeal here, particularly because Lorde and Little do spend so much time on the surface, turning it into something seductive, but it is no more real than the studied detachment of Lana Del Rey, who Lorde so strongly (and intentionally) resembles. Born to Die is meant to be appreciated as slippery, elusive pop; Pure Heroine seems to hint at the truth...but the truth is, Lorde is a pop invention as much as LDR and is not nearly as honest about her intentions.

Tracklist:

01 - Tennis Court (3:19)
02 - 400 Lux (3:54)
03 - Royals (3:10)
04 - Ribs (4:19)
05 - Buzzcut Season (4:07)
06 - Team (3:13)
07 - Glory and Gore (3:32)
08 - Still Sane (3:08)
09 - White Teeth Teens (3:38)
10 - A World Alone (4:58)

Bonus Track:
11 - Bravado (3:43)
12 - Swingin Party (3:45)
13 - Bravado (Fffrrannno Remix) (3:42)




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