Claude says:Lorde was only 16 when she and Joel Little tracked this debut at Golden Age Studios in Auckland — a stark electropop record built on deep bass, programmed beats, and a teenager's sharp eye for the hollow core of fame and materialism. It landed for you the same fall it came out, and you wore it hard through the start of 2014, especially "400 Lux" and "Ribs," the ones that carried the album's dream-pop undertow beneath all the runway critique.