Violent Malformation

Ella Yelich-O'Connor AKA Lorde one of the most recent CDs I purchased the other day. First thoughts.... This young Lass from New Zealand creates a poetic set of pop songs with a slow melancholy electro punk vibe if that makes any sense that I can get totally behind. Even though it is very similar to Lana Del Rey for the first few tracks. After a few songs you can tell she plays and experiments more with her vocals and has more of a Hip Hop vibe to her tracks. Especially after hearing the track "White Teeth Teens" she does a vocal run that reminds me of Bjork. Very Angsty lyrics which are pretty intense for a 16 year old but then again most teens are pretty fired up about something and redirect their passion in the right direction sometimes. If this is just the beginning to what she can produce I can imagine what will be in the future for her. I enjoy the fact that she wrote all the lyrics and had a hand in writing the music. Hopefully she doesn't play into the music industry and keeps putting out the music she wants too.