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As we all sit at home counting down the minutes to Solar Power’s release on Friday, Lorde has offered us another cut from the highly anticipated record with ‘Mood Ring’. This is the third single to come from the album which arrives via Universal Music New Zealand/EMI Records.

Like ‘Solar Power’, ‘Mood Ring’ takes its influence from the natural world and wellness culture, this time however with a more satirical view of ‘60s pseudo-spirituality. Even if she doesn’t really believe it, the music video does make you want to get the girls together and burn some sage. Musically, there’s a ‘00s pop vibe that mixes with Lorde’s vocals in a beautiful way.

Here’s what Queen Lorde herself said about the track:

“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.”

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

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