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Hear Lorde's New Track 'Yellow Flicker Beat'

Staff Writer

The song dropped overnight

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New Zealand superstar Lorde has kept good on her promise of delivering a new track this week, unveiling Yellow Flicker Beat overnight.

The track begins in mellow, haunting fashion but the beat soon amps up, taking Yellow Flicker Beat into epic, dark-pop anthem territory — take a listen:

The single is off the forthcoming soundtrack for the next instalment in The Hunger Games movie franchise — The Hunger Games: Mockinjay. It follows on from her contribution to the soundtrack to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire last year.

Lorde's debut album Pure Heroine celebrated a year since its release over the weekend.