Lorde to release new album Virgin

Lorde has announced a new album Virgin, set for release on June 27, 2025, via Republic Records.

The New Zealand star took to her website to unveil the cover and details of her fourth LP. Described as "100% written in blood", the record has been produced by Lorde and Jim-E Stack, alongside Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Devonté Hynes. The LP is also said to feature 11 tracks.

"The colour of the album is clear," wrote the singer-songwriter in a newsletter to fans. "Like bathwater, windows, ice, spit. Full transparency. The language is plain and unsentimental. The sounds are the same wherever possible.

"I was trying to see myself, all the way through," she added. "I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, open-hearted, spiritual, masc.

"I'm proud and scared of this album. There's nowhere to hide. I believe that putting the deepest parts of ourselves to music is what sets us free."

The LP announcement follows the release on April 24 of 'What Was That', Lorde's first original single in four years.

The singer-songwriter shared the track ahead of schedule, after previewing it at a pop-up event in New York's Washington Square Park about two hours after the police shut down the event due to overcrowding.

She also shared a music video featuring footage from the pop-up event.

Virgin will mark the Grammy and BRIT-winning musician's first full-length release in four years, since 2021's Solar Power.

The singer has made some public appearances in the meantime, including a 2022 sold-out show at New York's, Radio City Music Hall where she covered Rosalía's 'Hentai'.

More recently, she joined Charli xcx during her Coachella set to perform the widely acclaimed 'Girl, so confusing featuring lorde'.

See Virgin's cover below: