Lorde – Solar Power

Full, beautiful sound. Great pressing. The album really comes to life on vinyl. Listen to this on a sunny day.

still baffled by this over a year later. I understand she wanted to be environmentally friendly, but if she really wanted to, why even bother with this? Yes, it is recyclable, but what about the carbon emissions from the production of these? And the half a dozen different vinyl pressings probably has done more carbon emissions than a CD run would've. It's the age of the internet, if she really wanted the album to be as environmentally friendly as possible, make it a digital only album! Tons of albums nowadays only get digital releases.

I actually really like this album. It’s not her best, but it’s not as bad as everyone made it out to be. It’s a different side of Lorde we aren’t used to and I like the experimental sound. I’m only disappointed with the price. This album should not be $40. At most MAYBE $24. I doubt Lorde has a say in the price but if I were her i wouldn’t have allowed that price. If I wasn’t such a diehard Lorde fan I would’ve waited until it was discounted but I had to support her ultimately.

Besides that it’s a beautiful album on a pretty pressing. The album cover is great and I love how they placed the hype sticker!

I think I found how to differentiate the sign deluxe versus the unsigned. See my comment under the other pressing I don't feel like typing all that again.

Hopefully I can clear up which one is the signed copy if you have a sealed deluxe. I pre-ordered the standard deluxe and the signed one, planning to keep the signed one sealed cuz I'm a shameless Lorde Stan. When they arrived there was no clear way to tell which one was signed, so I kept both sealed and got a brown pressing(bad pressing by the way). The only thing that differentiated the two deluxes is that one of them had a different barcode sticker placed over the other bar code. (Sticker barcode- 602438501106) (barcode printed on sleeve-602438176502). My gut feeling was that the one with the sticker over bar code would be the signed copy.
Eventually I got sick of listening to the noisey/distorted brown copy, do I took a chance and opened the deluxe copy with no sticker. There is no signed postcard, so the one with sticker must have it. And I'm happy I ditched the brown, the standard black deluxe played perfectly for me.

Holy cow!! I scored this off of the Walmart website for $15 ... a bunch of the vinyl exclusives were available at that price as a pre-Black Friday deal ... and I couldn't be happier. The sound is so clear. Fantastic sounding pressing!

Very cozy, clear sound. A little low in volume, but that's just a better reason to turn the volume up! I'm sure the album is meant to sound this calmly-mastered and subtle. Nice bass and vocal mix. Probably my favorite release by Lorde. The colors on this record is beautiful as well! A great sounding pressing!

This may sound a little 'thick', but does this allow access to actual downloads of the files, or merely access to streaming files that you can't keep on your device?

The 7" sounds really bad, even for a picture disc, glad those songs are on streaming now so I can hear what is going in them

The most gorgeous pressing of this album...maybe even the most gorgeous pressing ever lol. Album is mid but sound and pressing are awesome.