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Growing up and relaxing, which is not necessarily a bad thing: Lord in a new album Israel today

2021-08-25T06:57:16.683Z


Some critics abroad have found the singer's new album too calm to sedate • But great songs from it prove that growing up is legitimate and even worthy


With the amount of pressure she’s been under in recent years, it’s no wonder Lord got a little lost on the way to her new album.

It's not easy to become a global sensation already at the age of 16, earning the nickname "Voice of a Generation" even before you finish high school, and being marked by super-artists as the one who redefined alternative pop.

Hell, in 2014 she was chosen by the remaining Nirvana band members to replace Kurt Cobain in their performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

If it is not atomic pressure to be subjected to it - then only God knows what is.

Add to that the fact that "Melodrama", her latest album from four years ago, was not considered too big a commercial success, and here's a recipe for a collapse under the burden of expectations.

After telling in an interview that she was about to record an acid-influenced work (and regretted it), revealed to her fans that her next album would be around the piano (he did not) and delayed its release after the death of her dog (which she claimed was a big part of the album), the 24-year-old singer finally releases "Solar Power", a third album and very different from the two that preceded it.

It's not that there are no songs here that you can dance to.

The opening "The Path" is such, for example, and also Secrets from a Girl, "(Who's Seen It All) but they are very few, and next to them mostly songs of solitude, distancing and chill on the beach, which like numbers The process Lord went through.

The album is more mature and quiet than its predecessors, but it comes at the cost of sobriety and giving up elements like passion, rage and other things that define youth.

Textually, Lord continues to be a sharp writer, especially in moments like the melancholic "De Man with Dex", which is a bit reminiscent of Billy Aylish.

But in terms of the production arranged for her by Jack Antonoff, the busiest producer in pop today, it seems the choice was to take your foot off the gas pedal and slow down.

The electronics have taken the place of acoustic guitars here, and the wave of the dance floor has been replaced by calm folk and even a bit of psychedelia.

Some critics abroad have found the album too calm to sedate, but great songs like "California Prot" and "Poland" actually prove that growing up and relaxing is not necessarily a bad thing.

"Solar Power", Lord

Source: israelhayom

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