Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "As a pop song production display, it's a tour de force....Lorde's writing and fantastically intimate vocals, ranging from her witchy, unprocessed low-register warbles to all sorts of digitized masks, make it matter." Spin - "She was always a remarkable singer, but the smoky, slightly hoarse warmth of her maturing voice immediately sets the new material apart from rivals..." Entertainment Weekly - "MELODRAMA retains all the precocious smarts of its predecessor while offering a riveting, more emotional journey of self-discovery." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly - "Lorde's sophomore effort was electric, filled with negative space and twitchy drums, lone piano riffs and plaintive synths." Uncut - "Grand Kate Bush-like ballads manoeuvred alongside vibrant party crescendos, coalescing into a conceptual pop masterpiece..." NME (Magazine) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "MELODRAMA is devilish in its cleverness, using its framing device -- a concept album about an out-of-control party, with all its highs and lows and woozy regret -- to explore the rush and crash of relationships and the difference between the external and internal self." Paste (magazine) - "On MELODRAMA, Lorde's glittering electropop triumph, the New Zealand singer-songwriter finds herself immersed in exhilarating, champagne-soaked parties and soul-crushing one-night stands, and witnessing the inevitable disintegration of her youth." Pitchfork (Website) - "MELODRAMA is a work of sleek self-possession, packed with bursts of peculiar rhymes and production that confound expected song formulas."