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'Pure Heroine' 81 on metacritic
Billboard - 94/100
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We're dancing in this world alone," she concludes on the finale "A World Alone." Even if that's true, "Pure Heroine" has provided an immaculate soundtrack to that solitude. This 16-year-old's first album is so smart that it begins with the line "Don't you think that it's boring how people talk?" and ends with the statement, "Let them talk." In between is an exploration into the soul of a quiet girl in the Internet age, trying to feel something and not envy everything.
September has been a profoundly great month for new female vocalists in popular music, but Lorde is easily the most vocally striking and lyrically thought-provoking. "Pure Heroine" is honest and addictive. Welcome to the age of Lorde.
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Pastemagazine 82/100
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At 37:17, Pure Heroine doesn’t take long to take down modern values. For Lorde, youth is both the ultimate revenge and burden. To know so much, to feel so little and to embrace what is, she illuminates being young, gifted and bored with a luminescence that suggests life beyond Louis Vuitton.
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Bostom Globe 80/100
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Yelich-O’Connor is, first and foremost, an astute songwriter, a keen observer of desolation and relationships. She cloaks her songs in a minimal strain of electro-pop and R&B, stark backdrops that recall the production aesthetic of the Weeknd and Jessie Ware. This is the rare debut that’s smart and disarming and instantly catchy.
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consequencesofsound 80/100
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Lorde’s clearly a gifted songwriter for her age, but don’t let the novelty affect your perception of Pure Heroine. It’s a very grown-up album despite its teenage topics, and if you give a damn about good pop songs, then you owe it a listen.
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Exclaim 80/100
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With lyrics steeped in critical thought and slathered with confidently modulated vocals, Lorde is the antithesis of pop schlock, making Pure Heroine a project well deserving of the commercial attention it's been receiving.
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Prettymuchamazig 75/100
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While it’s no masterpiece, Pure Heroine is unique and engaging enough to keep the conversation going.
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The Guardian - 4/5
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Her luxuriant voice similarly runs the gamut of leftfield pop – Lana's purrs, Regina's quirks, Zola Jesus's boom, the urban urchin squeaks of Chloe Howl. And despite her billing as the most self-determining artist ever spotted by a major label at the age of 12 and kept "in development" for four years, you suspect boardroom meddling behind the soft-step controversy of naming her debut album Pure Heroine. Her music, though, is undeniably authentic.
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All guide music 60/100
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Pure Heroine seems to hint at the truth... but the truth is, Lorde is a pop invention as much as LDR and is not nearly as honest about her intentions.
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Spin 6/10
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If nothing else, the music is aggressively okay (there's coiled-spring potential in the crackling, anxious "White Teeth Teens"). But its overall unspecialness undercuts Pure Heroine's devotion to playing both sides of Lorde's "only 16" coin
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