Lorde Debut Two New Songs At U.K. Festival

Lorde debuted two electro-tinged new songs yesterday (Aug. 11) on the Boardmasters Pageant in Cornwall, U.K., providing followers her first contemporary music because the launch of her 2021 album Solar Energy. The tracks have been considered titled “Silver Moon” and “Invisible Ink,” though Lorde clarified in an Instagram remark that these are the names of the demo information on her pc.

The primary new music was marked by Lorde’s lyrical remark “after I met you, I’d by no means accomplished Ecstasy / only a lady with a dream / bear in mind again then, I nonetheless had knowledge tooth.” One other key snippet was “each evening / the silver moon, it modifications / are you able to say the identical? / do you keep the identical?”

Earlier than the second new music, Lorde instructed the gang, “Boardmasters, I need you to close your eyes proper now. It’s simply you and me at nighttime.” Atop an electro beat with shades of the xx, she sang, “Mates of mine / we’re within the prime of our lives / I believe it’s excessive time your self-preservation met my rising solar” earlier than concluding with the road, “haters be hating.”

Lorde teased the most recent developments in a rare Instagram post earlier this week, writing, “these occasions are lovely they usually freak me out and there’s a lot to inform you. No this isn’t the beginning of something on the market, simply need u to know there’s a light-weight on inside me .. present it to you quickly.” The artist’s summer time European tour winds down with exhibits tonight in Helsinki, Monday in Budapest, and Aug. 19 in Parades de Coura, Portugal.