Lorde’s new album ‘Solar Power’ is mostly just wind

The New Zealand singer-songwriter (born Ella Yelich-O’Connor) was 16 when she released her 2013 debut, “Pure Heroine.” Anchored by a career-making hit, “Royals,” that expressed wonderment and skepticism at the lives of distant pop stars, it was a simple, personal, gorgeous album that seemed like it had always existed. Her sophomore album, the even better “Melodrama,” was a masterpiece of goth-y, sad girl maximalism.