℗ 2021 Universal Music New Zealand Limited
| Released | September 10, 2021 |
| Duration | 21m 54s |
| Genre | Alternative |
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1.1
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Te Ara Tika / The Path
Lorde |
3:40 | |||
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1.2
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Te Ao Mārama / Solar Power
Lorde |
3:10 | |||
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1.3
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Mata Kohore / Stoned at the Nail Salon
Lorde |
4:26 | |||
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1.4
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Hua Pirau / Fallen Fruit
Lorde |
3:59 | |||
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1.5
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Hine-i-te-Awatea / Oceanic Feeling
Lorde |
6:39 |
New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde releases a surprise EP, Te Ao Mārama, as a companion piece to her third studio album Solar Power. The project features five new versions of the album's songs, sung in Māori as an homage to New Zealand's historical, indigenous roots. Lorde enlisted the help of Dame Hinewehi Mohi, Sir Tīmoti Kāretu, Hana Mereraiha and Hēmi Kelly for language and translation guidance. The entirety of the proceeds from Te Ao Mārama are going to the New Zealand–based charities Forest and Bird and the Te Hua Kawariki Charitable Trust.
“Many things revealed themselves slowly to me while I was making this album, but the main realization by far was that much of my value system around caring for and listening to the natural world comes from traditional Māori principles. 'Te ao Māori' and 'tikanga Māori' [principles of doing right and respecting the natural world] are a big part of why people who aren’t from here intuit our country to be kind of ‘magical'."
- Lorde
48 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Universal Music New Zealand Limited Studio Masters
Tracks 1, 3 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1, 3 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 48 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.40 -0.95 to -0.20 | -13.17 -15.65 to -12.06 | -10.76 -12.90 to -9.70 | 6 5 to 8 | |
| 1 | Te Ara Tika / The Path | -0.23 | -12.68 | -10.2 | 6 |
| 2 | Te Ao Mārama / Solar Power | -0.20 | -12.06 | -9.7 | 6 |
| 3 | Mata Kohore / Stoned at the Nail Salon | -0.31 | -12.60 | -10.5 | 7 |
| 4 | Hua Pirau / Fallen Fruit | -0.31 | -15.65 | -12.9 | 8 |
| 5 | Hine-i-te-Awatea / Oceanic Feeling | -0.95 | -12.84 | -10.5 | 5 |