This track proves that was a mistaken assumption.Īlfred Soto: Starting with a single wobbling sustained note, “Yellow Flicker Beat” honors the title, bringing the creeps and fulfilling the difficult task of interpolating the movie’s tropes without turning them to hash. A producer seeing the numbers, and thinking that she was working against the consumerism and spectacle that Hunger Games was, would think that their might be some overlap.
It reminds me of the trick Alt-J pull at their best, of songs which foreground atmosphere but with beats that still carry powerful instant momentum.Īnthony Easton: Lorde runs low and smooth, her apocalyptic thoughts are delicate, requiring the ennui of modern cities, refusing a history past 1986. Its rough humming sliding into synth squeals as the chorus hits is a highlight, like the lights flickering to reveal the monster hidden in the room, in a frenzy of glimpsed action. Iain Mew: Lorde takes some of the sonics of album highlight “Ribs”, combines that with a further exploration into the creeping unease that she brought to her song with Son Lux, and comes up with a spooky anthem. Lorde also knows what makes a teen scrawl lyrics on schoolbooks. “Yellow Flicker Beat” needs no particular help to work because it’s a showcase for Lorde getting lots of different things out of her voice: weird tension to start adorably goth-y schtick over Those Drums and a level of menace just right for the young adults reading books and watching films and listening to soundtracks from the Hunger Games franchise.
Pharrell WilliamsĮdward Okulicz: Paul Epworth has a very recognisable sound (the drums here are straight out of something he might have given Florence + The Machine) but largely avoids the critical brickbats that other samey producers get.
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