Motel Radio "Garden" 2022-05-13 Lorde composed the songs on

Lorde composed the songs on Melodrama in New Zealand

the 14-track album spans from stories of love to stories of loss

a driving rhythm section and grinding guitar with complex song structures and literary lyrics

) and pairs the sounds of Chicago punk and the youthful Midwest "emo revival" movement

Motel Radio "Garden" 2022-05-13 Lorde composed the songs onWritten and recorded in the midst of a dizzying stretch in which nearly everything about the way the band lived and worked was turned on its head, The Garden is indeed a work of relentless hope. The songs are profoundly vulnerable here, and the performances are warm and breezy, calling to mind everything from Andy Shauf and Cass McCombs to Beck and Tame Impala with an easygoing demeanor that belies the deep emotional work underpinning them. Motel