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SummaryLorde has officially lifted the veil on VirginHer fourth studio album, the project features production from Jim-E Stack across the 11 tracks – including singles "What Was That," "Hammer" and "Man Of The Year"You can tell a lot about a Lorde album from its cover art. When Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor chooses to grace us with a studio project around every four years, she ensures each project's visual language lays the groundwork for the time capsule of a narrative she's ready to tell. Her studio debut and encapsulation of her tumultuous yet romantic teenage years, Pure Heroine, kept it simple in visual style, the young musician still finding her footing as a human, let alone an artist. Four years later came Melodrama, which features a still-life painting of the singer in shades of...

Kevin Abstract was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, a few hours outside of Houston, where he spent the majority of his adolescence before moving to Georgia. For his fourth solo studio album, Abstract is harkening to the spirit of his hometown for another genre-blurring, needle-pushing album with some of his sharpest storytelling yet.Blush sounds homegrown, Abstract calling the genre "Texas Pop," but ultimately defining it as "just music that sounds like home." With that sentiment stringing through each of the 18 tracks, features come from a handful of local Houston artists like Love Spells, along with a collection of Abstract's close friends and creative collaborators, including JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown, Dominic Fike, Ameer Van, and top-to-bottom executive production from Quadeca."2024: I was ...