It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. It topped several year-end best albums lists by music critics, but trailed commercially compared to her debut studio album, Pure Heroine. On 16 June 2017, Lorde released her second studio album, Melodrama, to universal critical acclaim. The Solar Power Tour will cover North America, Europe, and Oceania. Lorde began her third concert tour, the Solar Power Tour, with a performance in Nashville, Tennessee on 3 April 2022 – her first concert performance since November 2018. It consists of the Māori versions of five tracks from the album. A Māori-language EP, titled Te Ao Mārama, was released on 9 September 2021 as a companion project to Solar Power. Lorde opted against releasing CDs for environmental reasons, releasing Solar Power to digital music platforms, streaming services, and as vinyl LPs only. It additionally topped the US Billboard Alternative Albums chart. The album polarised music critics, who admired Lorde's matured vocals, but were divided over its songwriting some reviewers praised the laid-back music and perceptive themes, while the rest considered its sound unfinished and lyrics dispassionate.Ĭommercially, Solar Power reached number one in Australia and New Zealand, and charted inside the top-10 in Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Scotland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The album's lyrics revolve around solipsism and summer escapism, mainly focusing on Lorde's leisure time in her homeland New Zealand, simultaneously expressing her disdain for fame and celebrity culture. It was followed by ' Stoned at the Nail Salon' and ' Mood Ring', leading up to the album's release.Ĭlassified by Lorde as her ' weed album', Solar Power is a psychedelic pop and indie folk effort driven by acoustic guitar arrangements, marking a departure from the synth-heavy, dance-oriented music of her previous works.

Three singles were released before the album: the lead single and title track, ' Solar Power', was released on a solar eclipse and entered the charts in various countries, reaching number two on the New Zealand Singles Chart.

She stated the title Solar Power was inspired by the trip, and that she 'felt like could just chill out and flex a little bit' while creating the record. The album was preceded by Going South, a June 2021 memoir documenting Lorde's 2019 visit to Antarctica, which she dubbed as the precursor to the album. Lorde wrote and produced the album with American musician Jack Antonoff, whom she also worked with on her second studio album, Melodrama (2017). It was released on 20 August 2021, by Universal Music New Zealand. Solar Power is the third studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde.

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