Lorde Announces Highly Anticipated Fourth Album, 'Virgin'
Lorde said her forthcoming album was “100% WRITTEN IN BLOOD.”
Lorde (Credit: Thistle Brown)
It’s time to enter Lorde summer.
A week after releasing her first single in almost four years, What Was That—and getting a meet-up with fans shut down by police due to the amount of people who had gathered at Washington Square Park in New York, which ended up part of the track’s music video—the New Zealand singer-songwriter has announced the release of her new album, Virgin.
The album is set for release on Friday, 27 June, via EMI/Republic. In the lead-up to the release of What Was That, Lorde’s social media profiles and website went blank. Today, her website redirects to details about the album.
The album art is an X-ray of the singer, showing a belt buckle, jeans zipper, and an IUD.
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“An album by me, produced by me and Jim-E Stack,” a note on her website reads. Lorde added that producers and musical collaborators such as Fabiana Palladino, Dan Nigro (Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan), Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes (Turnstile), Andrew Aged, and Buddy Ross were involved in the album.
She revealed that Virgin was mixed by Spike Stent and Tom Elmhirst, mastered by Chris Gehringer, and “100% WRITTEN IN BLOOD.”
In an email to fans, Lorde said of the inspiration behind the album:
THE COLOUR OF THE ALBUM IS CLEAR. LIKE BATHWATER, WINDOWS, ICE, SPIT. FULL TRANSPARENCY. THE LANGUAGE IS PLAIN AND UNSENTIMENTAL. THE SOUNDS ARE THE SAME WHEREVER POSSIBLE. I WAS TRYING TO SEE MYSELF, ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A DOCUMENT THAT REFLECTED MY FEMININITY: RAW, PRIMAL, INNOCENT, ELEGANT, OPENHEARTED, SPIRITUAL, MASC. I’M PROUD AND SCARED OF THIS ALBUM. THERE’S NOWHERE TO HIDE. I BELIEVE THAT PUTTING THE DEEPEST PARTS OF OURSELVES TO MUSIC IS WHAT SETS US FREE.
"I WAS TRYING TO MAKE A DOCUMENT THAT REFLECTED MY FEMININITY: RAW, PRIMAL, INNOCENT, ELEGANT, OPENHEARTED, SPIRITUAL, MASC"
— Lorde Updates 🧬⛓️ (@LordeUpdatesBR) April 30, 2025
— Lorde via email pic.twitter.com/CGo0U7oluu
You can pre-order Virgin here.
Virgin is the follow-up to Lorde’s 2021 album, Solar Power. Since the release of her third LP, the singer has remained relatively quiet, but started making some noise again last year by featuring on the Girl, so confusing remix with Charli XCX.
2024 also saw Lorde record a cover of Take Me To The River for the Talking Heads tribute album Everyone’s Getting Involved. Earlier this year, she collaborated with Marlon Williams on the song Kāhore He Manu E from his first-ever Māori language album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, which was released in April.
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