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Positive review by the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review.html
 
And a 4/5 from Pressplayok:
http://pressplayok.com/albums/review-lana-del-rey-lust-life/

Btw I'm really surprised that Lana managed to have a diverse but yet cohesive album at the same time. Didn't expect that it will work out that well.

Yeah, definetely, you're right, and I always can understand people who don't like Lana since she and her music is a bit "special". But calling her a "one trick pony" is a bit stupid nevertheless if you look at all the (different) stuff she has done in her carreer. In the end it's all a matter of personal taste and every reviewer is just giving his or her personal opinion (although some reviewers act as if their opinion is "the right one"...).

Germany's biggest weekly journal also reviewed LFL – it's a pretty mixed review, more on the negative side:
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/musik/lana-del-rey-neues-album-lust-for-life-lana-laechelt-jetzt-rezension-a-1158588.html
 
The journalist calls her a "one trick pony" (although she obviousvly like(d) Lana's earlier music) which is really stupid, so I can't take this article too serious.

German music review website laut.de gave Lana her first five-star rating for Lust For Life (Born To Die and Honeymoon only got 3/5 and Ultraviolence got 4/5) and called it "nearly perfect".

4.5/5 from Attitude Magazine
 
"...for those who have been at any time captivated by her work, this continuation of her journey includes some of her best material. We don’t need Lana to change it up too much when she’s crafted herself her very own genre."
 
http://attitude.co.uk/review-lana-del-rey-lust-for-life/

I didnt write about the first part because we've heard most of it besides a couple songs. 
 
Coachella (Woodstock in my Mind) - 8.5/10 I love the message behind the song and appreciate the beats behind the lyrics. It seems a little unfinished and I enjoy that part of it. Sets a good tone for the second half lyrically, but is the last song of hard beats on the record.
God Bless America - 9/10 The guitar at the beginning is refreshing. The very "American" vibe I get from the first couple seconds is electric. The two gunshots after "God Bless America" is also a favorite part. Her tone "And all the beautiful woman in it" makes it seem like that part is a little secret. Like a hush-hush? Very patriotic and feminine. "Stand proud and strong like Lady Liberty shining on and on" she sings, wanting the ladies to know, they keep us strong. Overall, a great song, but not the strongest in terms of lyrics on the record. Musically, BTD reworked by an Indie artist... at its finest. 
When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing - 9/10 The first verse and the little beat in the back is reminiscent of Born to Die and the first verse. The tempo change from the verses to chorus is so great, my favorite part. "Is it the end of an Era, is it the end of America" She sings in a way that she's trying to convince herself its going to be alright, but shes still unsure. Her pitch in the chorus is amazing. The chorus is the highlight of this song. Similar to GBA, a refreshing and new song, but not the strongest on the album. 
Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems - 10/10 I love the piano in this. Also love her tone. Lyrically, I'm in total awe with this song. The melody, the instrumentation, everything is great. I was apprehensive about hearing a song with Lana and Stevie, but to me, their voices are so complementary towards each other. Her verse is VERY refreshing and sounds just like a Fleetwood Mac song back in the 70s. The pre-chorus after the 2nd verse where they're singing together is one of my favorite parts. The later end of the song makes me wanna cry, right after the bridge. They sound so desperate and sure of themselves. A standout and one of my favs on the record.
Tomorrow Never Came - 8.5/10 The Woodstock, Indie vibe is a standout on this record. Reminds me of Florida Kilos in a way. The chorus and her breathy tone makes the song great, along with Seans singing. I haven't paid too much attention to it. I know I would love it a whole lot more if I really tried. Another record highlight tho.
Heroin - 10/10 Ultraviolence tease. One of my favorites, if not, my absolute favorite song on the album. The instrumentation, the lyrics, the tone. SO dark and eerie. The beat in the chorus as she singings "Heroin" omg. "Its fucking hot, hot" this switch up makes this song THAT much better. She sounds so sad and angry, I hate it, but love it for the sake of the music. The last chorus with the layered vocals makes me cum.
Change - 9.5/10 Sounds like a literal swan song. Like she's saying goodbye to the Old Lana with this "change". I haven't paid attention to it lyrically that much, but I know its one of my favorites. Another eerie tone to it, much like its predecessor. The chorus sounds like a "war in her mind". She sounds sort of optimistic in this song. Could be political, but also could be personal. The sadest on the record.
Get Free - 10/10 Her best album closer yet in her career. The most upbeat song on the entire record. Refreshing, in the sort of way as if she's looking back on everything shes done so far. I love how the tempo progresses in the first verse, and picks up entirely in the chorus. A huge Lizzy Grant tease in this song. "Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind, I wanna get off, but I keep riding the ride." I LOVE THIS. I've been mindfucked by this song.
 
 
The second half of the album is much better and original than the beginning. The first half in my opinion, is like Lana sticking to what she knows she could do. The second half is her showing us what she can do now. The record makes me question if shes as happy as she proclaims. It seems to have an underlying, VERY dark tone to it. It's very cohesive musically and lyrically, but the most confusing record I've ever listened to. After each listen, I ask myself, "What did I just listen to?" because it pulls you in being so cohesive, but it's very confusing and I can't tell you whats really confusing. This record is def my favorite by her so far. I'm excited to start finding the meanings of each song and understanding them inside and out. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwozGV2rCg

Personally I've made my peace with that (even though I was shook with that little chorus she sang). We have amazing tracks like TNC, BPBP, Heroin, Get Free, GBA and Cherry (even better when we get the clean version) to be lusting after a song we haven't heard in full length. 

Just my review I shared on most of the sites I follow (music/film,etc.)
 
Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life is an entirely self-aware piece – just as all of her past albums have been. Haters gonna hate, but Lana is arguably the most influential female “pop star” of the past five or so years. Everybody from Miley Cyrus to Katy Perry to Lorde to Adele to Selena Gomez to Tove Lo have all admitted to having been, in some capacity, influenced by her. What’s ironic? All of those artists have, in some capacity, brought the sadcore lyricism (and melancholic nihilism) that Del Rey perfected into their work – and now, it seems like even those who were on the scene before 2012’s Born to Die are also picking up on those influences. It may be a bit foggy at the moment, but time is going to be good to Lana. There’ll be a day when her initial scorn is forgotten, and she’s entirely considered one of the greats of our current pop landscape.    Lana’s music has never been “one-track minded” – instead, she’s been a storyteller. Her narratives are always loose, but almost humorously tight. On her 2012 EP called Paradise, the song “American” is followed up by “Cola”, which has the unfortunate first lyric of “my pussy tastes like Pepsi-Cola” – a song that seems stupid until you realize the performance of the Del Rey persona is remaining consistent, and has all these years. On Lust for Life, she ups the euphemisms and compares sex to more nature-driven symbols: cherries, peaches, rosemary, thyme – but the song still remains about fucking; while Del Rey’s Shangri-Las-like “wall of sound” production has her playfully adlibbing in the background “bitch” and “fuck”, almost as if she’s taunting us (or daring is) to see her in a serious light. It works, because – in the end – with her cheeky humor, Del Rey’s albums are almost always entirely serious. It’s the Americana-coated imagery that makes it seem less pop ballad, and more folk ballad with a little touch of ammonia.    Lust for Life starts off with a guitar-driven “wall of sound” space opera, and then follows that up with seven trap beats filtered through some kind of Phil Spector production you’d find the Ronettes placed in – with Lana, herself, showing off her range of octaves, and the many accent stylings she uses when approaching her visual-driven lyrics. These songs are hot (in a sense, that they are really driven by an atmosphere of a smoggy, polluted Los Angeles heat), and see Lana at her most cheeky. The middle track of the album is “Coachella – Woodstock in My Mind” – a track that, on its own, feels barebones and kind of silly – but in context of the album feels like a breather before the real momentum of the album starts.    By using this one track, Lana bridges the “summer trap” of the first half of the album (which could accurately be akin to the things you’d hear Lana doing at Coachella) with the second’s “folk-driven trap”. Instead of focusing on the overwhelming heat of the songs, these seven songs (two of which feature Stevie Nicks and Sean Lennon), are politically-minded, and almost seem to scream in the face of the listener. It would be so laughable if it weren’t so damn sincere, and it would be difficult to not take seriously if it weren’t for Lana remaining self-deprecating and sarcastic through a lot of it by supplying more of her unenthused nihilism. The chorus to the song “When We Were at War We Kept Dancing” is, quite literally, “Is it the end of an era? Is it the end of America?” followed by a nod to M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”.    And Del Rey really allows herself to be BIZARRE here. As with Lana’s past work, there are nods to poetry, with the album’s title track quoting – verbatim – the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley. She also samples Radiohead's "Creep", samples audio from the '62 horror film Carnival of Souls, has the balls to name a song "Heroin", makes a sequel to a song from The Beatles' Revolver, and has recurring lyrics throughout the songs on the album, as well as literal melodies played on both ends ("White Mustang" and "Heroin" are pretty much one song, explaining the former's short length on the album's "Coachella" side.)   But there’s also a track that compares the Charles Manson cult to contemporary L.A. hedonism – with Del Rey belting out to her fans that she’s “tired of it” when they’re “rubbing blood on my walls and shit.” There’s a lyric on the final track that name-drops Aliester Crowley as if he’s a household name, with the same song being self-proclaimed as her “modern manifesto” on “taking the darkness out of the arts” and going “from the black, into the blue”. Political to the point of oversentimentality, but in the same universe as pussy tasting like Pepsi, it comes from a place of pretty moving density – even though it’s wrapped up in such hyperactive imagery. It says something that she can scream “it’s fucking hot, hot” on the same album as “hip-hop in the summer, don’t be a bummer” – and still come out on top saying, in one song, “there’s something coming in on the wings of a bomb”.    I’m worried many critics are going to miss the album’s horror elements and focus simply on the “happiness” that Del Rey has found. I’m also worried that, perhaps, not enough people have caught up to Lana in how she’s been approaching her work from the beginning. Some still see her as manufactured.    An album this messy and weird – yet entirely consistent to her and all her work before it – proves, without a shadow of a doubt, she’s in complete control.   
And holy shit, how she’s an enigmatic, dense, melodramatic, sadcore storyteller.

not sure if you all care about reviews but heres another very positive one! 80/100
 
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-album-review-tracklist-features-the-weeknd-aap-rocky-a7852166.html

White Mustang - 
http://instagram.com/p/BWy4ZdOFbmx/
 
Cherry -
http://instagram.com/p/BWy6Bzalqp1/

Video from the fan asking for the date - 

Stevie and Sean added so much to the those songs. The other collabs were unnecessary no offense

I just listened for the first time at the stroke of midnight, driving around downtown Minneapolis and I AM FUCKIN BLOWN AWAY. The album did, indeed, fuck my ENTIrE shit up. I hope Lana forgives us all for being such brats this whole time because she truly outdid herself with this one. I know we say it all the time, but we really don't deserve her lol. This album has a much clearer and more decipherable storyline than any of her previous albums. It's obvious but it also still leaves room for speculation and nuance. The ultra 60s shangri-las vibes from LFL and Get Free are excellent bookends. Get Free sonically imbibes LFL but the lyrics show the growth she's gone through since the beginning of the album. Ugh, perfect. And Change seriously sounds like a Lennon song. That's a huge compliment coming from someone who would probably literally eat John Lennon's shit (me). I cried so hard when I listened to it. And Sean and Lana sound so good together in Tomorrow Never Came. That was truly two worlds colliding for me, like a fuckin dream. I can't get over it. There are so many folky, hippie era moments, from the sassy hard-hitting political bits to the folky singer-songwriter bits. I wasn't expecting the album to be such a thorough tribute to the 60s and 70s. It's retro future for sure, but in a way more thoughtful and involved way than I anticipated. Also, we got EVERY kind of Lana vocal on here. We are so spoiled oh my god. I have officially PERISHED    I can't wait to spend every spare moment of my life absorbing this album over the coming days. 

The interview is really awesome and outstanding, I love it. But I'm a bit confused about the overall dark/melancholic tone of it – in the interview she gave this German newspaper she sounded way happier: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/9190-german-lust-for-life-interview/
 
Maybe it was because of the questions of the Pitchfork guy that she opened up so much, I don't know.

I'm listening to the title track in my bed rn and I'm tearing up because this album really holds its own compared to the rest of her discography. I had anxiety about this being her worst album, but I don't have to worry about that anymore. I'm so happy she produced another FANTASTIC album. I could say stuff like "it's better than UV" or "it's better than HM" but imo it's wrong to compare her albums like that. She released another fantastic body of work and it's time to get all of my life for the next few years!!! Long live Lana fucking Del Rey!!!!

This album is amazing, iconic. Love her with all my heart. We all stan talent !!

I love this album so much. It's so good to have a Lana album that I instantly love ( no shade but I took a couple of listens before get into Honeymoon and even today I have to be at a specific mood so I can appreciate the album)

After 919 pages of Pre-Pre Release and 2206 pages of Pre-Release, we did it...
 
 
 
 
July 21, 2017: Lana Del Rey's 5th Record 'Lust For Life' has been released worldwide.
 
 
Purchase: https://itun.es/us/GZ35kb
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
1. Love
 
 
2. Lust For Life (ft. The Weeknd)
 
 
3. 13 Beaches
 
 
4. Cherry
 
 
5. White Mustang
 
 
6. Summer Bummer (ft. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
 
 
7. Groupie Love (ft. A$AP Rocky)
 
 
8. In My Feelings
 
 
9. Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind
 
 
10. God Bless America - And All the Beautiful Women In It
 
 
11. When the World Was At War We Kept Dancing
 
 
12. Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (ft. Stevie Nicks)
 
 
13. Tomorrow Never Came (ft. SEAN ONO LENNON)
 
 
14. Heroin
 
 
15. Change
 
 
16. Get Free
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Read the Pre-Release Thread
 
 
 
 
 
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German taste in music unfortunately most of the time pretty sucks...

German taste in music unfortunately most of the time pretty sucks...

Yay, LFL is finally available on Spotify in Germany (and most of Western Europe I guess)!

AAAAAANNNDDD IT'S MIDNIGHT, HAPPY LUST FOR LIFE DAY GUYS!!
And I'm going to sleep, I have one more day of summer research school to go. xD

Positive review by the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review.html
 
And a 4/5 from Pressplayok:
http://pressplayok.com/albums/review-lana-del-rey-lust-life/