Little back to help Lorde follow up Pure Heroine album

Lorde and Joel Little.

Lorde could be back in the studio any day now to record her second album after collaborator and co-producer Joel Little tweeted about his return to New Zealand to team up with the teenage superstar.

On Saturday, Little tweeted: "I'm at the airport ... don't want to give too much away but let's just say I'm flying to Shmew Shmealand to make some shmusic with Shmorde".

The Grammy-award winning producer and Lorde's right-hand-man told Triple J radio in Australia late last month the pair would team up in March to start work on the follow-up to Pure Heroine. "Within the next month or so we'll be in the studio," he said.

Little said the pair would write songs but nothing definite was planned regarding style or sound.

"I think we're just going to start writing and when it starts to feel right, we'll know that it's right. It's pretty simple really."

In January, Lorde told reporters at the Golden Globe Awards she didn't have a timeline for her next album.

"For me I have to kind of write a project lyrically before I attack it musically. So I've written a lot of amazing stuff and I'm just tentatively starting to make it music."

The 18-year-old and Little recorded her first album at the producer's Golden Age studio in Auckland three years ago. From Pure Heroine came the global hit Royals and the duo were nominated for a host of awards, including Song of the Year at the Grammys, which they won for Royals.

They also worked together on The Hunger Games hit single, Yellow Flicker Beat, and were nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song.

Little's return is fresh off the back of his collaboration with former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns, who launched a solo career in January with the song Aerial Love.

Little is also known for his work with Nelson-based brother and sister act Broods.