[LISTEN] Lorde – “Perfect Places”

It’s crazy to think that we are only two weeks away from the release of Lorde‘s Melodrama. New track, “Perfect Places” is everything we ever loved about the singer but heightened to build on her signature sound. June 16th can’t get here fast enough!

“this is a special one. i was living in new york during summer last year, writing melodrama – i’d ride across the brooklyn bridge every day, or sit on the subway uptown in the heat, then go back home to new zealand winter for a week at a time to party with my friends. my life was like a weird little etch-a-sketch i kept scribbling on and resetting. and all last summer, i couldn’t shake the feeling that everyone i knew or saw was searching for something – trying to transcend the news and the screaming pavements, drinking that one drink hoping it’d get them someplace higher. this song comes from that endless cycle of evenings and the violent heat of the summer. it took us a very long time to get right, from an aching piano demo to where is it now. it’s close to my heart. i hope you like it.

Listen to “Perfect Places” below:

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