Lorde fans will get an early chance to hear her highly anticipated new album, Virgin, before it officially drops.
The Aotearoa pop star has announced a series of listening parties on June 25th and 26th, with six events happening across Australia and New Zealand.
In New Zealand, the parties will be held on Wednesday at Flying Nun record stores in Auckland, Christchurch, and Wellington.
In Australia, the events will take place on Thursday at Rockaway Records in Brisbane, Hum On King in Sydney, and Oh! Jean Records in Melbourne. More details are on the websites of the record stores, and a full list of stores hosting the Virgin listening parties is available online here.
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Virgin is set to be released on June 27th and is the follow-up to Lorde’s 2021 album, Solar Power.
Today on Instagram, she teased her next single, “Hammer”, set to release this Friday. The video, directed by Renell Medrano, was filmed at Hampstead Heath
Promotion for the album has been building with last month’s release of the single “Man of the Year”, which came with a captivating new video.
The track follows previous single “What Was That”, which Lorde memorably previewed in New York City’s Washington Square Park in April. After sending out a text blast to fans announcing the unexpected teaser event, so many people filled up the park that the police had to come and shut the whole thing down. (She performed “What Was That” in the same place just a couple of hours later anyway.)
Recently, Lorde has been ramping up promotion in New Zealand, attending the Aotearoa Music Awards where she won Single of the Year award for her zeitgeist-grabbing Charli XCX collaboration, “Girl, so confusing featuring Lorde”.
She also surprised fans with a surprise pop-up performance in a bathroom at Auckland’s YMCA.
Lorde discussed Virgin at length in her Rolling Stone cover story, her first in-depth conversation about her new album.
