Lorde Releases New Track "Team"

New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Rising New Zealand singer Ella Yelich-O'Connor, or Lorde, with smash single "Royals" she is dominating the charts. The singer/songwriter Lorde returns with "Team", the latest track off her forthcoming debut album, Pure Heroine , due out September 30th. Whereas some of her past material, notably The Love Club EP , demonstrated a young talent on the rise, "Team" sees the Auckland native in complete control of her beguiling musical presence.

Over a celebratory beat of handclaps and swirling synth, Lorde's vocals achieve a masterful blend of carefree party girl and old soul struggling with the weight of the world.
Lyrically, she displays a similar maturation, sounding equally wide-eyed ("We live in cities you'll never see onscreen") and utterly cynical ("I'm kind of over getting told to throw my hands up in the air/So there").