Lorde "Virgin" Record Store Day Ian MacKaye

Ian MacKaye

who has helmed recent buzz albums from Kvelertak

which will be celebrated with this album and a 20 year anniversary tour (appropriately titled 20 Years of Pop Punk) where they will be playing new material along with catalog albums from front to back

The quartet’s special alchemy meant these fond homages never slid into pastiche

but not in the sense of one guy strumming an acoustic guitar and singing

Lorde "Virgin" Record Store Day Ian MacKayeCo produced by Lorde and Jim E Stack, with contributions from Devonte Hynes (Blood Orange), Dan Nigro, Fabiana Palladino, Buddy Ross, and Andrew Aged, Virgin is the sound of Lorde returning to the beat driven and raw lyricism that propelled Pure Heroine and Melodrama to commercial and critical success. Preceded by lead single What Was That, which peaked at #1 on the US Spotify Chart, Virgin marks the return of a truly generational artist. 12 180 gram