“Almost everyone thinks it’s strings”: Lorde unmasks the unusual guitar part on her new album that was created using a classic ‘90s Roland V-Guitar processor that’s now “insanely expensive” on the second-hand market

Lorde’s new album, Virgin, might be oozing with synth sounds, but it turns out that there’s also one particularly noteworthy guitar part in Shapeshifter, the record’s third track.

Speaking to the Tape Notes Podcast, Lorde and producer Jim-E Stack have confirmed that this was the work of Andrew Aged of American duo Inc No World, but the truth is that it doesn’t actually sound like a guitar at all.