What’s your go-to “the weather is getting warm” album?

Personally, I think that every year when the weather starts warming up, people are going to start coming back to Lorde’s Solar Power more and more. The album just didn’t really connect when it came out, and I’ll admit, it didn’t hit me as hard as Melodrama. There’s a lot going on—the climate anxiety, the grappling with fame, the present on songs like “Mood Ring” and “Leader Of A New Regime”—that makes the album hard to digest. I didn’t think I was in love with it, but every springtime since it’s beckoned me back with its curious magic. There’s a lot of strange beauty on Solar Power, a sense of blossoming that feels perfectly suited for newly warm weather. And every year, I feel like I understand better the twisted humor, the frivolity with an undercurrent of darkness and doom, the character at the center of the album that makes it so compelling. Some warm sunny day, everyone else is going to see the vision, too! [Mary Kate Carr]