necessary sacrifice

This album is giving me major Tori Amos vibes. This is the album I always wanted from Taylor.

What’s funny is lately I’ve been thinking the album after her second poetry album might be a big budget more commercial era like BTD and LFL again. Idk why specifically, it’s just a gut feeling I have.

For once the urban outfitters one is the most unnecessary. There’s no alternate cover and the vinyl colour doesn’t match at all. I’m grateful for the cream vinyl and picture disc on Lana’s site because those are much lovelier.

F - Come When You Call Me America M - Freak K - Go Go Dancer Smarty Carmen Body Electric

I was just listening to Joan Baez’s poetry album Baptism and I was holding the sleeve, looking at it, when I noticed in the corner there’s a tree with orange fruit on it (which I never really noticed before) so I wonder if the Violet cover was a bit of a homage to that since they’re both poetry albums and we know how much she loves Joan Baez. Here, I circled the tree for you guys. Idk how I never saw it there before but I guess I never really had a reason to notice it before.

Aesthetically, Folklore is giving me Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding” vibes and Joni Mitchell “Hejira” vibes. I hope sonically it’s in that kind of direction too.

I think I’m gonna cancel my picture disc and order the double disc bundle. Not sure though since every other album I’ve gotten a standard black and an alternate, and I wouldn’t get a standard black this round if I got the cream and the picture disc, so that would be different. Part of me thinks I shouldn’t because I’ll wanna go buy one in shop the day it comes out, but idek if shops will be open in October, and I’ll have waited a couple months for a vinyl anyway, so it might not bother me if I have to wait an extra couple weeks for it to arrive.

Please please please! I need this!

Joan Baez painted Lana!!!!!! And it looks so pretty! I love this!

I would actually live for something this chaotic. I can only wish..

I can’t believe it’s only a week away!!!! I can barely contain my excitement. I have a feeling this project is gonna absolutely blow us away. I’ve been rereading some of the poems to get myself ready. It’s a shame the physical copies won’t be out til October, but I’m just so happy I’ll get to hear it at all. Does anyone have plans for their first listen?

I hope this album either has an interlude or one really long song (or both)

Maybe they’re waiting to put up the bundles and cream vinyl for July 28th. Since the physical copies don’t come out til the fall, dropping extra stuff for preorder on the day it comes out digitally would probably make sense.

I didn’t know where to post this thought, so I guess here is good. I don’t really know anything about Lana’s contract, but I’ve recently been wondering if possibly making her poetry books also into albums is a way of finishing up her contract, especially with the poetry albums coming so close before and after Chemtrails. It was just an observation.

I wonder if the CD and regular vinyl will include some photos featured in the book or if it’ll just be a barebones release since it accompanies the book anyway.

In the early stages of working on NFR, she said her next album would be more in the vein of Change. All of NFR doesn’t sound like Change, but overall it does sonically have that vibe. So if Lana says the next album will be more in the vein of Hope, I don’t think it’ll be an entire album of songs that sound just like Hope, but overall it could be the general sound to it. I can still imagine dark surfy instrumentals fitting into a Hope-like atmosphere. Her albums always have a little variety of sounds, no matter how cohesive they are, so I wouldn’t be worried about just stark piano ballads.

I was just listening to Jenny Lewis’ song Hollywood Lawn and I just realized there’s a line about lookin up at chemtrails and I was like !!!!!! and the funny thing is the song always kinda gave me strong Lana vibes. I’d love if this album had kinda a similar a similar soundscape and/or mood to Jenny Lewis’ On the Line album from last year. I know Lana and Jack could easily pull something like that off but better.

Honeymoon vs Video Games

I almost hate how breathtaking this is because I know the cover we get won’t compare. This is exactly the essence I’m hoping for.

Trash Magic vs 1949

Violet’s cover art gives me such Beach Boys’ Smiley Smile vibes, maybe a little Wild Honey in there.

I was just thinking (again), the poem we’ve heard from Violet has a soft Norman-like instrumental, so maybe if NFR and VBBOTG have a similar sound, maybe COTCC will have the kinda surf noir sound patent leather do-over had. As if each poetry album is like a closing chapter after the albums. Or for all we know, just that one poem (it was “happy” right? I can’t remember lol) has that sound, and it’ll be a gradual transition from NFR to VBBOTG to COTCC to BTIG–IFAI, starting from like a peaceful sound and getting darker and darker. That’d be cool. I’m just so curious since we have so much to look forward to and we have no clue whatsoever of what this album could contain and minimal ideas about the poetry albums to go off of.

Idk where they appear but all the audiobooks I’ve listened to on Spotify were in podcast format, so that’s what I was talking about. If they’re listed with regular albums though, then my point was irrelevant.

This actually got me thinking, I wonder if it’ll be sorted on Spotify as a regular album or as a podcast like most audiobooks....

Gods & Monsters vs Ultraviolence