Lorde Melodrama 11/15/2022 the Grateful Dead would soon

the Grateful Dead would soon leave it for fresher musical pastures

with every song -- from the kaleidoscopic title track to the delicate folk of "Hosanna" and the pounding

" and "Hey Jude")

Just sampling and scratching Sabbath and Zeppelin to hip-hop beats does not make for an automatically good record

bearing an ambition and execution that outstrips latter-day Wings -- much of the charm of Tug of War lies in the excess around the edges

Lorde Melodrama 11/15/2022 the Grateful Dead would soonGrowing up in public has been a rite of passage for pop stars since at least Frank Sinatra but, as with any classic storyline, what matters is the execution. Lorde, the preternaturally talented New Zealand singer songwriter who became an international sensation at the age of 17, knows how to execute not only songwriting and public narrative but also a melding of the two. Melodrama, arriving nearly four long years after her 2013 debut, picks up the