LORDE releases new single ‘Mood Ring,’ lifted from new album Solar Power out this Friday – WATCH THE VIDEO NOW
LORDE RELEASES “MOOD RING”
AHEAD OF HER HIGHLY ANTICIPATED THIRD STUDIO ALBUM SOLAR POWER ALBUM OUT THIS FRIDAY, AUGUST 20TH
UK DATES SOLD OUT INCLUDING 3 NIGHTS AT LONDON ROUNDHOUSE!
EXTRA LONDON DATE ANNOUNCED AT ALEXANDRA PALACE – 28 JUNE 2022
LONDON, UK (July 21, 2021) – GRAMMY® and BRIT Award-winning multi platinum artist LORDE has dropped “MOOD RING”, the latest song off her forthcoming third studio album, Solar Power, which will be released via Universal Music New Zealand / EMI Records this Friday, August 20th. The song comes alongside an epic music video featuring LORDE as you’ve never seen her before.
Pre-Order / Pre-Save / Pre-Add Solar Power HERE
Listen to “Mood Ring” HERE
Watch the video for “Mood Ring” HERE
Of “Mood Ring” Lorde says, “This is a song I am very excited about, it’s so much fun to me. Obviously when making this album I did a deep-dive into 60s, Flower Child culture. I wanted to understand the commune life, dropping out from society and trying to start again. That really resonated to me when writing this album. One thing that occurred to me as a major parallel between that time and our time is our wellness culture and our culture of spirituality, pseudo-spirituality, wellness, pseudo-wellness. Things like eating a macro-biotic vegan diet or burning sage, keeping crystals, reading tarot cards or your horoscope. These were all things that they were dabbling in back then, and that me and my girlfriends are dabbling in today. I was like “I think there’s a pop song in here”. So this is kind of my extremely satirical look at all of those vibes.”
The song is the latest glimpse into what the full Solar Power universe will feel like. A celebration of the natural world, the album includes 12 tracks and is produced by Jack Antonoff who she collaborated with on her chart-topping last album, Melodrama.
Most notably, to honour the natural world the artist is presenting the album in a first-of-its kind, disc-less format. An eco-conscious Music Box will be available for purchase in lieu of a CD. This innovative offering will contain some of those special extras that fans might normally receive in a CD packet, such as visual content, handwritten notes, exclusive photos, and a download card. The card will give purchasers a high-quality download of the music, two exclusive bonus tracks, and access to some special surprises along the way.
When talking about the concept Lorde says, “I decided early on in the process of making this album that I also wanted to create an environmentally kind, forward-thinking alternative to the CD. I wanted this Music Box product to be similar in size, shape and price to a CD, to live alongside it in a retail environment, but be something which stands apart and that’s committed to the evolving nature of a modern album.”
Solar Power Tracklist:
1. The Path
2. Solar Power
3. California
4. Stoned at the Nail Salon
5. Fallen Fruit
6. Secrets From a Girl (Who’s Seen It All)
7. The Man with the Axe
8. Dominoes
9. Big Star
10. Leader of a New Regime
11. Mood Ring
12. Oceanic Feeling
Earlier this summer, Lorde announced her 2022 World tour dates. The sold-out 40+ show tour includes a UK run of dates across Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Birmingham.
After quickly selling out all of her UK shows including three sold out nights at London’s Roundhouse, Lorde has added a huge extra date at London Alexandra Palace on Tuesday 28th June 2022. Tickets are on sale now from www.gigsandtours.com / www.ticketmaster.co.uk / www.lorde.co.nz
The artist will take to the stage on album release day to headline the “GMA” Summer Concert Series with their first in-person Central Park show in nearly two years. Then starting August 23rd, LORDE will join “The Late Late Show with James Corden” for a week-long residency during the show’s first week back from summer hiatus.
LORDE TOUR DATES:
| Date | City | Venue |
| February 26 | Christchurch, NZ | Electric Avenue Festival |
| February 27 | Upper Moutere, NZ | Neudorf Vineyards – SOLD OUT |
| March 1 | Wellington, NZ | Days Bay – SOLD OUT |
| March 2 | Havelock North, NZ | Black Barn Vineyards – SOLD OUT |
| March 4 | New Plymouth, NZ | Bowl of Brooklands |
| March 5 | Auckland, NZ | Outerfields |
| March 10 | Brisbane, AU | Riverstage |
| March 12 | Melbourne, AU | SMMB |
| March 13 | Melbourne, AU | SMMB |
| March 15 | Sydney, AU | Aware Super Theatre |
| March 16 | Sydney, AU | Aware Super Theatre |
| March 19 | Perth, AU | Belvoir Amphitheater |
| April 3 | Nashville, TN | Opry House – SOLD OUT |
| April 5 | Detroit, MI | Masonic Temple Theatre – SOLD OUT |
| April 7 | Montreal, QC | Salle Willfrid Pelletier – SOLD OUT |
| April 8 | Toronto, ON | Meridian Hall – SOLD OUT |
| April 9 | Toronto, ON | Meridian Hall – SOLD OUT |
| April 12 | Boston, MA | Boch Center – Wang Theatre – SOLD OUT |
| April 13 | Boston, MA | Boch Center – Wang Theatre – SOLD OUT |
| April 15 | Uncasville, CT | Mohegan Sun Arena – SOLD OUT |
| April 16 | Washington, DC | The Anthem – SOLD OUT |
| April 18 | New York, NY | Radio City Music Hall – SOLD OUT |
| April 19 | New Tork, NY | Radio City Music Hall – SOLD OUT |
| April 20 | Philadelphia, PA | The Met – SOLD OUT |
| April 22 | Chicago, IL | The Chicago Theatre – SOLD OUT |
| April 23 | Chicago, IL | The Chicago Theatre – SOLD OUT |
| April 25 | Minneapolis, MN | The Armory – SOLD OUT |
| April 27 | Denver, CO | Mission Ballroom – SOLD OUT |
| April 30 | Seattle, WA | WaMu Theatre – SOLD OUT |
| May 1 | Portland, OR | Theater of the Clouds – SOLD OUT |
| May 3 | San Francisco, CA | Bill Graham Civic Auditorium – SOLD OUT |
| May 5 | Los Angeles, CA | Shrine Auditorium – SOLD OUT |
| May 6 | Los Angeles, CA | Shrine Auditorium – SOLD OUT |
| May 7 | Santa Barbara, CA | Santa Barbara Bowl – SOLD OUT |
| May 25 | Leeds, UK | O2 Academy – SOLD OUT |
| May 26 | Edinburgh, UK | Usher Hall – SOLD OUT |
| May 28 | Manchester, UK | O2 Victoria Warehouse – SOLD OUT |
| May 30 | Birmingham, UK | O2 Academy – SOLD OUT |
| June 1 | London, UK | Roundhouse – SOLD OUT |
| June 2 | London, UK | Roundhouse – SOLD OUT |
| June 3 | London, UK | Roundhouse – SOLD OUT |
| June 7 | Paris, FR | Casino de Paris – SOLD OUT |
| June 8 | Amsterdam, NL | AFAS Live – SOLD OUT |
| June 10 | Barcelona, ES | Primavera Sound |
| June 13 | Zurich, CH | Halle 622 |
| June 14 | Munich, DE | Zenith |
| June 16 | Rome, IT | Cavea – Auditorium Parco della Musica |
| June 17 | Villafranca di Verona, IT | Castello di Villafranca |
| June 18 | Sibenik, HR | Saint Mihovil Fortress – SOLD OUT |
| June 19 | Sibenik, HR | Saint Mihovil Fortress – SOLD OUT |
| June 21 | Cologne, DE | Open Air am Tanzbrunnen |
| June 23 | Berlin, DE | Verti Music Hall – SOLD OUT |
| June 28 | London, UK | Alexandra Palace (new date) |
ABOUT LORDE
In 2013, a 16-year-old LORDE quietly, yet confidently asserted herself as the voice of a generation with her full-length debut, Pure Heroine. The album would go triple-platinum, win two GRAMMY® Awards, and spawn the seven-times platinum record-breaking international juggernaut single, “Royals,” and quadruple-platinum follow up “Team.” The former reached #1 on the UK Official Charts and cemented LORDE as “the youngest solo artist and the only New Zealander to achieve #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1987.” Time exalted her amongst the “Most Influential Teenagers in the World,” she landed on Forbes’s “30 Under 30” List, graced the cover of Rolling Stone and performed alongside Nirvana during the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She also curated the official soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and recorded “Yellow Flicker Beat” as the lead single.
In 2017 LORDE released her second full-length studio album, Melodrama which debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 Chart, making her the first ever NZ artist to land a #1 debut album in the United States. The album reached #1 in over 45 countries and earned LORDE a nomination for Album of the Year at the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards. She won the BRIT Award for International Female Solo Artist in both 2014 and 2018.
LORDE made her highly anticipated return with critically acclaimed new single, “Solar Power,” from her third full-length studio album, Solar Power, due out August 20th. LORDE currently has over 12 million albums sold worldwide and over 10 billion streams worldwide.
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