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    not much there to say but another amazing album

    kintsugi “thats how the light gets in”

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    only “negatives” are i feel Peppers and Taco Truck feel unfinished. They’re both absolute GOLD but in Peppers theres such a good build up with “im in loooove” and the chorus lets it down. And Taco truck should have been a full song. The latin production is so sexy and beautiful. VB was totally unnecessary. 

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    3 minutes ago, Thunder Revenant said:

    Soooo I finally listened to the leak for the first time.

    Many users complained about the album having too many outtakes however

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    I have to admit that the only songs that I have problems warming up to are the ones we hadn't heard before.

    If You Lie Down With Me is probably my favourite unheard song so far. It's a bit weird, I like the lyrics and vocal performance and the 20-esque outro. It still kinda lacks focus and is all over the place.

    Black Bathing Suit is a huge mess. I guess it will unfold after some time, but at least after my first listen I had very little motivation to go back to it and figure it out. I' guess Id really like it if it wasn't for that whacky post-chorus and they'd invested that energy in a more exciting production - maybe something slightly more cinematic like Text Book.

    Violets For Roses is nice but not sticking out too much. I like her low-register delivery and the melody but the whole track is something she's done before.

    Beautiful and Sweet Caroline are solid tunes but they kinda feel very filler-ish.

    None of these unheard songs really got me excited, even though I did not actively dislike any of them. All of the leaked/ previously released songs actually provided the best moments of the album to me, at least during my first run through it.

     

     

    Also, I think the tracklist is pretty messy

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    First of all I don't get why she interrupted that perfect transition from BBS to Beautiful.

    Then there is that interlude, which is a lot of fun, but the fact that it interjects this trap beat in between two ballads kinda defeats its pupose.

    I also feel like IYLDWM should have been next to Arcadia, they seem like sister songs with the jazzy piano and the horn sections.

    I'd personally also put VFR after IYLDWM, it works a bit better that way. And Dealer hits even harder if it's coming after the Disney-ballad that is Beautiful.

    Soooo if I had to rearrange the tracklist it would be:

     

    01. Text Book
    02. Blue Banisters
    03. Arcadia
    04. If You Lie Down With Me
    05. Violets For Roses
    06. Black Bathing Suit
    07. Beautiful
    08. Dealer
    09. Thunder
    10.Wildflower Wildfire
    11. Nectar Of The Gods
    12. Living Legend
    13. Cherry Blossom
    14. Sweet Caroline

    Considering the outtakes

     

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    I already said it many times, but I'll say it again - I think that rework for Thunder was a huge downgrade.
    It's still a good song but she really sucked a lot of the energy and fire it had out of it. The build up was not worth stripping all of the momentum off the first half of the song. I could see a piano-driven first chorus work if the drums and backing singers would kick in for the chorus, but the fact that this first one is just her singing over the piano and violin makes it sound empty and powerless. We already have a stripped down variation of the chorus after the bridge, which has a much bigger effect. The way the watered-down percussion kicks in for the second verse does basically nothing, it's no big suprise or hard-hitting change, it's just this lame beat lurking into the song without making an impact. The worst thing is how they underuse the backing singers. It was that chemistry between their chants and Lana's delivery that made that song shine, it's not something you are supposed to strip back.

    I think Living Legend and NOTG make a lot of sense on this record, placing them back to back with one another and then also adding Cherry Blossom was probably not the best idea though since they all sound pretty similar and it makes them hard to distinguish when you're not really paying full attention to the music.

    Dealer is great, I'm glad we have it and I think it fits BB much better than CoCC. However it has a similar problem like The Trio. Everything about that tune screams BREAKING MOMENT! however after it's over, the album basically just goes on the way it went before. Not watering down Thunder could have helped here.

    All in all I really like that album and I think it will grow on me even more. It's a very good autumn/late summer album.

    It definitly has its flaws and could have been better but it's still a huge improvement after the uninspired CoCC.

    I don't see it surpassing NFR, HM or UV for me, but it will definitly take place 4 in my Lana album ranking for now.

    So crazy how my opinions on IYLDNTM, black bathing suit and violets for roses are so opposite to yours.

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    My best to least list. Let me know if you strongly disagree with any - i will be forced to revisit. 

     

    1. Wildflower Wildfire

    2. Arcadia

    3. Black Bathing Suit

    4. Violets for Roses

    5. Living Legend

    6. Thunder

    7.  Sweet Caroline

    8. Text Book

    9. Blue Banister

    10. Dealer

    ^i like all and below i just don’t care for.

    11. Beautiful

    12. Cherry Blossom

    13. If you lie down next to me

    14. Nectar of the Gods

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