Lorde does a Taylor Swift and shares cryptic post about her new album

Lorde appeared to tease the upcoming release of new music as she posted several cryptic pictures to her Instagram account on Wednesday.

In the photos, the 27-year-old performer wore a long black dress as she looked over a balcony.

The Kiwi singer then shared a second image of her spitting over the balcony before posting a close-up of her hand holding a tablet with the word ‘spit’ written on it.

Lorde also posted a photo of a jewellery dish, a poolside selfie and a blurred image from inside her home.

She wrote a short message, which read: ‘Use the existing tools wherever possible. If the tools do not exist you are spiritually obliged to create them.’

Fans couldn’t help but speculate her post was a teaser for the release of upcoming music.

‘So the lead single is called spit?’ one person questioned.

‘LORDE WHAT IS THIS PLEASE RELEASE AN ALBUM,’ another excited fan wrote while a third person commented: ‘Lorde’s new album is coming!’

The post is the only one on Lorde’s Instagram page.

It comes after Lorde raised eyebrows in February by sharing very intimate photos of herself listening to music in the bath.

Although many fans suspected that Lorde was planning on releasing a new album, she took to her Instagram account to express that she did not have a major project in the works.

She wrote: ‘This is not the start of anything out there, just want u to know there’s a light on inside me.’

When another fan commented that the hitmaker was trying to mislead her fanbase, she doubled down on her original denial.

‘I’m serious literally just decided to set these free from my laptop… but they’re not bad eh,’ she wrote.

Lorde’s most recently-released album Solar Power made its debut in August of 2021.