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10.0
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NME
The New Zealand star's third album continues her winning streak, as she blazes a trail through the pop landscape with a beautiful paean to nature
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10.0
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The FT
The New Zealand singer-songwriter blurs reality and reverie on a scintillating third album
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9.0
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Clash
Euphoria mixed with existential vertigo
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9.0
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The Quietus
A project that, for all its bruises and emotional scarring, find a way to be flawless
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8.0
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The Guardian
Equipped with lovely melodies and a bombast-resistant sound, the New Zealander exchanges the spotlight for a sly reflection on true happiness
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8.0
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The Irish Times
Unsettling but pretty, her macabre pop still casts a shadow on even the brightest of days. All hail Lorde
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8.0
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The Observer
Like Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift before her, the New Zealand star embraces mellowness on a third album shaded by climate anxiety and a rejection of celebrity
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8.0
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Vinyl Chapters
Some are inevitably going to dislike this album and that’s totally understandable – this kind of music is not for everyone and it’s certainly not the style of Lorde that many people have grown accustomed to
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
While embracing elements of the past, that Laurel Canyon sound of the 60s mixed with 2000’s Lilith Fair singer songwriter confessionals, Lorde has actually made an album that feels perfectly in sync with our modern times
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7.7
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Paste Magazine
On her third record, the New Zealand songwriter smokes a lot of dope and throws a middle finger at the lingering side effects of her former teenage stardom
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musicOMH
This might not be the album that everyone wanted from Lorde, but it’s a solid, dreamy effort that deserves exploration. There’s plenty here worthy of attention if you can focus for long enough
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
On Solar Power, Lorde presents herself as a pop star in exile, one who’s rejected fame and all of its material trappings
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Rolling Stone
Her long-awaited third album is smooth and beachy, searching for serenity in anxious times
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7.0
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DIY
A heady trip that prances around greatness but settles for pretty good
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6.8
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Pitchfork
Lorde returns with a self-aware, scaled-back album. Its holistic beauty and revelations about the natural world are often lost in the drab music
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6.5
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Beats Per Minute
Each successive song on Solar Power feels like returning to the same yoga class day after day; there might be the odd new mantra or position, but there’s nothing truly revelatory
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6.0
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Gigwise
Trading luminosity for something more pastel
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The Skinny
It's all change for Lorde, as the New Zealander returns with a strangely subdued third album
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5.5
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Under The Radar
If you’re looking for a culture-changing album, an emotional experience, or more than two dance-worthy songs…Solar Power is not it
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5.0
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A.V. Club
Solar Power’s a little messy and rough around the edges, and features a Lorde now moving on from her youth and wanting to keep some things to herself
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5.0
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Solar Power is not a transformation so much as it is a straight regression. Lorde’s behind-the-scenes actions and motives may be admirable – inspirational, even – but unfortunately none of that translated to record here
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Loud And Quiet
Even if Solar Power doesn’t always hit, there are great ideas at play. Lorde’s choice to detach is a commendable one, even if we can’t always take that trip with her
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4.0
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The Independent
The New Zealand musician was dubbed ‘the future of music’ by David Bowie. But on her third album, she swaps her directness for tuneless detachment
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4.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
It’s a shame to witness such a fall from grace, as all the genius on Melodrama seems to have stayed there, leaving Solar Power high and dry without any flavour or journey to embark on. Lorde has found her new world, and sadly, it’s not the one we’re living in
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4.0
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Evening Standard
It’s all very well rejecting the superstar lifestyle but she seems to have given up trying at all
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4.0
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Spectrum Culture
Lorde has always been a master of balancing satire and vulnerability, which makes her “summer album” all the more disappointing in how uneventfully she drops the ball on executing her promising vision
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