Lorde Kicks Off 'Ultrasound World Tour' With Deep Cut, 'Virgin' Tracks

Lorde began her highly anticipated Ultrasound World Tour this week, premiering every track from her latest album, Virgin, for the first time in the US.

After performing a surprise set at Glastonbury festival earlier this year, in which she played the live debut of Virgin, Lorde returned to the road for the beginning of her first tour in three years. The tour began at the Moody Centre in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, 17 September.

Throughout the show, Lorde performed each track from Virgin, plus beloved tracks from her other three albums, Pure Heroine (2013), Melodrama (2017), and Solar Power (2021), with Melodrama receiving the biggest showing of tracks aside from Virgin songs.

And, the New Zealand-born singer-songwriter played a deep cut, No Better, a bonus track from Pure Heroine, for the first time in eleven years.

You can check out the setlist below.

In February 2026, Lorde will bring her Ultrasound World Tour to Australia and New Zealand. She’s set to perform sold-out nights in Auckland, Christchurch, Brisbane, two nights each in Sydney and Melbourne, and a show in Perth. You can find tickets to the Perth show via the Frontier Touring website.

Until then, though, Lorde continues her tour of the US until late October. She then heads to Europe and the UK for a two-month trek concluding in December.

Virgin was released in June 2025. Her fourth album and the follow-up to 2021’s Solar Power, Virgin debuted at #1 on the Australian and New Zealand album charts and features the hit singles What Was That, Man Of The Year, and Hammer.

“A big part of this album for me, and part of why I call it Virgin, is because I really had this sort of feeling of rebirth at some point in 2023,” Lorde explained in a recent cover story interview with The Music.

She added, “I changed a lot about my life, and I took away a lot of the structures that I had relied upon to be like, ‘This is my life, and I know what I'm doing.’ My vibe for a long time had been: ‘I got this.’ I think a lot about this album is choosing to not know where it’s going to go and let it happen to you.”

Lorde @ the Moody Centre, Austin, Texas on Wednesday 17 September Setlist:

Act I
Hammer
Royals
Broken Glass
Buzzcut Season
Favourite Daughter
Perfect Places

Act II
Shapeshifter
Current Affairs
Supercut (extended intro)
No Better (First time live since 2014)
GRWM
The Louvre (extended intro)

Act III
Oceanic Feeling
Big Star
Liability (extended intro)
Clearblue (extended intro & outro)
Man Of The Year

Act IV
If She Could See Me Now (extended intro)
Team
What Was That
Green Light
David
Ribs