this album introduces a more complex and diverse musical palette
and adult‑contemporary balladry across ten tracks
The New York Times
The album shifts the narrative focus from the original hero Angus to his brother Adam McSix
Melodrama October 1985 this album introduces a moreLordes Melodrama is her second studio album, released on June 16, 2017, and conceived as an intense, maximalist followup to the minimalist, hiphoptinged Pure Heroine. Coproduced primarily with Jack Antonoff, it leans into synthpop, art pop, and electropop built around piano melodies, pulsing synths, and dense, shapeshifting beats, with many tracks morphing through multiple sections (Sober, Hard Feelings Loveless, Supercut). Critics widely hailed it as