• Lorde is risen again in new album ‘Virgin’ | The Oakland Post
Lorde’s new album “Virgin” encompasses the hurt, comfort and nostalgia of youth. She reminisces about a time in her life that most university students are just about to step into after graduation. Growing up is confusing and this collection feels as though the singer is reaching out to hold listeners’ hands while assuring them that ...

• Lorde’s ‘Virgin’ scores massive chart debut, topping multiple Billboard rankings | // MELODIC Magazine | July 10, 2025, 12:51 a.m.
Lorde’s fourth studio album, Virgin, has made a powerful entrance on the U.S. charts, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and claiming the top spot across five major Billboard categories, including Top Album Sales, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Top Alternative Albums, Vinyl Albums, and Indie Store Album Sales. The release marks the

• ‘Virgin’ is a Look Inside Lorde’s Soul | www.34st.com
Lorde explores gender identity, self–expression, and reclaiming her body in her fourth studio album.

• Lorde makes her long-awaited return to music with ‘Virgin’ | The Vanderbilt Hustler | July 8, 2025, 10:51 p.m.
Lorde released her fourth studio album, her first album release in four years.

• Review | Lorde delivers another instant classic with ‘Virgin’ | The Daily Illini | July 7, 2025, 4 p.m.
Rating: 10/10 It’s not easy making great music — something few artists understand.  In the height of mass streaming parties and social media to boost popularity, many artists have abandoned the concept of a full album cycle in favor of get-hits-quick singles.  Then, there’s Lorde: the embodiment of taking your time. Once again, she’s followed...

• ‘Insane’: For first time, Lorde hits number 1 in UK album charts, debuts at 2 in US | Stuff | July 7, 2025, 12:12 a.m.
The Kiwi singer is also number one in Australia and New Zealand.

• Lorde – “Virgin” | Metal Magazine | metalmagazine.eu
Read our in-depth review of Lorde's new album “Virgin,” a raw, electronic record produced by Jim-E Stack that sees the artist explore innocence, addiction, and rebirth.

• Album review: “Virgin” is Lorde reclaiming her sound, and herself | The Simmons Voice
After a four-year wait following 2021’s “Solar Power,” New Zealand’s Ella Yelich-O’Connor, better known to the public as Lorde, dropped her fourth album “Virgin” on June 27. Preceded by singles “What Was That,” “Man of the Year” and “Hammer,” Lorde’s return to the electronic synth-pop she’s well known for resonated around the world.  In “Solar...

• Album Review: Lorde - Virgin | petersaudiojournal.com
What Was That? A new Lorde album?

• Meet New Zealand’s lone Virgin reviewer | The Spinoff | July 4, 2025, 4:02 p.m.
Previous Lorde albums had local media outlets scrambling to publish their reviewers' thoughts. Virgin? So far it's just this one guy.

• Lorde: Fans say CD copies of Virgin don't work | BBC
The singer's latest - Virgin - comes on a transparent disc, which has caused headaches for some.

• What’s behind the title of Lorde’s new album, Virgin? | Feminist
Lorde has finally released her highly anticipated fourth studio album, ‘Virgin’. It tackles themes of gender identity, bodily autonomy, and rebirth, with many calling it the album of the summer.

• Lorde's transparent Virgin CD is apparently bad at producing sound | The A.V. Club
Lorde's transparent Virgin CD is apparently bad at producing sound

• Culture Pick | Lorde’s ‘Virgin’ struggles for a strong identity | The Crimson White
Lorde has carved out quite the niche in popular music – simultaneously a wise-beyond-her-years poet singing delicate lyrics and a hopelessly-romantic party girl performing pop anthems to sold-out arenas. After her comeback feature on Charli XCX’s “Girl, so confusing” relaunched her into the top of pop, Lorde released her single, “What Was That” and immediately...

• Lorde’s ‘Virgin’ is a bold, beautiful reckoning with vulnerability | // MELODIC Magazine | July 2, 2025, 10:12 p.m.
Four years after the release of her third studio album Solar Power, Lorde returns with her highly anticipated fourth album, Virgin, via Republic — and with it, “Lorde Summer” is officially in full effect. With a career defined by reinvention and emotional sincerity, Lorde has consistently carved her own path through the pop landscape. Bursting

• Lorde Is Brilliantly Reborn on 'Virgin': Album Review | Rolling Stone Australia | July 2, 2025, 8:41 p.m.
Lorde turns inward and redefines who she wants to be on her most introspective record yet.

• Lorde Strips Down to Start Over | The New Yorker | July 2, 2025, 7:15 p.m.
On “Virgin,” the pop star examines the myths that make up her identity.

• Liner Notes: In 'Virgin,' Lorde is raw and honest, but fully herself | The Daily Northwestern | July 2, 2025, 4:14 a.m.
Lorde summer is finally here, and it’s full of angst, resentment, contemplation and growth. At age 16, a starry-eyed Lorde entered the music industry with back-to-back hits, reveling in teenage disillusionment. Twelve years later at 28, she sings of the pains of fame, generational trauma and body dysmorphia. The New Zealand singer-songwriter released her fourth...

• Lorde's 'Virgin' CDs don't work with most players, according to fans | NME | July 2, 2025, 2:27 a.m.
Fans are claiming that Lorde's 'Virgin' CDs don't work with most CD players – check out a few reactions here.

• Lorde ‘Virgin’ Review: Thriving in Uncertainty | Slant Magazine | June 30, 2025, 5:52 p.m.
Though it lacks the immediacy of the singer’s best work, the album is a hesitant step in the right direction.

• Lorde | Virgin Clear LP | Vinyl | Complex
Virgin Clear LP | Available here is "Virgin," Lorde's new album for 2025, in its LP release pressed on clear vinyl. Co-produced by Lorde and Jim…

• Review: 'Virgin' | The Daily of the University of Washington
My first experience listening to Lorde was when I played on a recreational softball team in 2014. We were called the “Royal Pains” (after our royal blue uniforms and elementary

• Lorde releases her new album 'Virgin' ! | FrontView Magazine
Today Lorde has released her highly anticipated fourth studio album ‘V

• Review | On ‘Virgin,’ Lorde sounds reckless, reborn and better than ever | Washington Post | June 30, 2025, 2:22 p.m.
On her fourth studio album, the Lorde of yore is back and better than ever.

• Lorde Embraces Gender, Ambiguity in New Album ‘Virgin’ | Rolling Stone Philippines | Music, Culture, Social Issues | June 30, 2025, 8:16 a.m.
In Lorde's new album "Virgin," the singer becomes comfortable with exploring her gender identity and the ugliness of transformation and uncertainty

• Lorde gets personal and raw on "Virgin" | The NewsHouse | June 29, 2025, 3:08 a.m.
Review: "Virgin" is less a pop album than a reckoning, where the singer trades her usual polish for confession to stand alone in the raw light of her own truth.

• Lorde: Virgin | Pitchfork
Read Olivia Horn’s review of the album.

• On Virgin, Lorde has never been less certain or more alive | The A.V. Club
On Virgin, Lorde has never been less certain or more alive

• Lorde strips off for Vogue after shocking fans with X-rated album | Mail Online | June 29, 2025, 3:29 p.m.
Lorde has continued her X-rated era with a racy shoot for Vogue Australia. 

• Lorde: Der dunkle Schatten der Super-Popstars | Kronen Zeitung | June 29, 2025, 9 a.m.
Lordes viertes Album „Virgin“ ist eine musikalische Rückkehr zum artifiziellen Pop, der sie vor zwölf Jahren über Nacht zum etwas anderen Weltstar ...

• Album Review: Lorde | The NewsHouse | June 29, 2025, 3:08 a.m.
Under the cold blue glow of an X-ray machine, Lorde reveals her own pelvis, her IUD faintly visible like a secret hidden in plain sight. This is the cover of Virgin, Lorde’s fourth album, and it’s the perfect emblem for what happens in the next 40 minutes. Because while the music still carries Lorde’s trademark cool, the voice guiding us through these songs belongs more fully than ever to Ella Yelich-O’Connor, the woman behind the pop star. From the raw confessions of “Broken Glass” to the sexual candor of “Current Affairs,” Virgin is a reckoning. Under the cold blue glow of an X-ray machine, Lorde reveals her own pelvis, her IUD faintly visible like a secret hidden in plain sight. This is the cover of Virgin, Lorde’s fourth album, and it’s the perfect emblem for what happens in the next 40 minutes. Because while the music still carries Lorde’s trademark cool, the voice guiding us through these songs belongs more fully than ever to Ella Yelich-O’Connor, the woman behind the pop star. F

• Lorde Album Review: Virgin - WXVU V 89.1 The Roar | WXVU V 89.1 The Roar - Villanova Radio | June 28, 2025, 12:16 a.m.
As a long-time Lorde fan and devoted listener, I was more than ready for this moment. Virgin, Lorde’s newest album, released on June 26, 2025, marks her first full project since Solar Power in 2021. That album got a lot of unnecessary hate. Personally, I think it’s one of her best. It captures the essence

• On the ecstatic 'Virgin,' Lorde knows she doesn't have it all figured out | Connecticut Public | June 27, 2025, 4:01 a.m.
The pop star's fourth album, her first since 2021's polarizing Solar Power, finds the 28-year-old shedding the stoic self-possession that defined her early career.

• Lorde, 'Virgin' | Album Review - Paste Magazine | Paste | June 27, 2025, midnight
On the uncomfortable paths of Lorde's fourth album, 'Virgin,' slam-dunk bangers are substituted with reinvention and restraint surrendered through hushed, reflective, and carnal synth-pop...

• Our first reactions to Virgin, Lorde’s brand new album | The Spinoff | June 26, 2025, 11:15 p.m.
Lorde said this album would feel like shotgunning a Red Bull and kissing someone you really like. Was she right?