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Lorde’s Homecoming
On Virgin, she’s back to making bangers and breaking hearts.
Co-conspirators this time — Bon Iver collaborator Jim-E Stack, with sporadic appearances from pop-whisperers like Dev Hynes and Justin Vernon himself — assist the singer with crafting sleek vehicles to streamline her emotional candor. She felt taken for granted then, “pure heroine mistaken for featherweight,” closer “David” muses; at the end of an album tracking the minting of a bolder, wilder 20-something in a crucible of tears and self-doubt, Lorde sings giddily that she belongs to no one. Lorde works admirably to draft sentences that lacerate — “Every night the room fills up with / People who are convinced I’m not / Just some kid faking it for your love,” “Favorite Daughter” bellows — on an album arguing forcefully for the right to be sprawling and imperfect.
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