Lorde will release her fourth album, Virgin, on June 27th.

In an E-mail to fans she wrote, "The colour of the album is clear, 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. I was trying to make a document that reflected my femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual."

She added, "I'm proud and scared of this album" and that it's "100% written in blood.”