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    I think the ugliness of the selfie covers is a conscious choice, forcing people to focus on the music and the writing, which I can’t argue with strategically - they are near-objectively poor images of course, but I think she just feels done with the promotional cycle bullshit, as nice as it is for us to experience, it clearly doesn’t gel with her personality or priorities. She was slated for so long for leaning on presentation and aesthetics (a BIZARRE criticism from every angle), so she’s deliberately throwing in the towel on that front.

     

    And hey, I’m down, I just hope to God it ain’t the album cover, though I’ve never liked any of her album covers since BTD. NFR was an amazing image, ruined by the obnoxious Pop Art typeface and its conceptual and aesthetic  incongruence with the cover’s painterly reference to the real Norman Rockwell. I also want her to do a textless cover at some point.

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    Remember when Lana said in the lead-up to LFL that it was for us, her fans? Something to that effect anyway. Anyway, in my opinion, that *was* her throwback to Born To Die-esque sounds (more explicitly trip-hop and electronic, despite its latter half), that was her attempted fan service, and whilst the songs individually were great, it was her least cohesive album, and the fans reacted accordingly. She’s not going back, and I’m so happy for her to still be growing ten years into her career.

     

    Anyway, Text Book is on repeat, it’s stunning, have been writing lots of poetry to it. Lyrically WW is incredible, but it’s actually my least favourite of the three - it just isn’t as dynamic as the other two songs. BB is legitimately risky, changing tempo without percussion. I love her leaning into these more disruptive compositions, I want her to keep pushing it towards something eventually unrecognisable.

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    Re: “country”, her album descriptions have never been accurate, I wouldn’t take them too seriously. Whilst I love her dark, cavernous trip-hop work of yore, I totally trust her continuing with a more organic sound. And if so, I’d love for her to go down the route of Tennis’ latest album, whilst pushing herself even more with the structural complexities of West Coast, DBJAG and DTWD. Every album I’ve worried “this is probably gonna be the one where her schtick runs thin”, but it doesn’t, she delivers every time. LFL is certainly her least cohesive if not weakest record, it has a couple of clunkers, but there are multiple songs that are individually great. Anyway, musically, I trust her.

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    9 minutes ago, Nadia14 said:
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    You explained my thoughts and feelings about this album perfectly. The album is raw, vulnerable, dynamic, experimental - an instant classic. 

     


    Exactly.

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    I think it’s possibly her most personal album. She’s mourning what might have been, despite having worked so long to get to where she is, and realising how much she’s lost to pursuing her dream.

     

    And I know we’re not supposed to be able to relate to celebrities, but she sings about her fame and how it’s affected her practice, it’s quite relatable somehow as I’m also furthering my own career as an artist and seeing how my work (which is extremely personal, but made public) has changed so much as I’ve grown into the adult I’ve more or less become, getting close to thirty.

     

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    One thing I can say (apart from thinking that this is her best album, certainly most musically sophisticated album) is that it’s definitely her *weirdest * album, and rawest for sure sonically. So many structural twists and turns, I’ve always loved that about tracks like West Coast and Get Free for their unusual tonal shifts mid-song, and she’s made a good chunk of  these kinds of songs on this album. It’s dynamic, and I don’t see myself not listening to this album all the way through in its entirety when I do listen to it - it’s such a fully rounded statement piece, which is why I think the shorter tracklist is actually a good thing. There are no favourites for me in that regard - I love the whole thing. I really hope the critics see what I can see. This blows Norman Fucking Rockwell out of the water.

     

    I’ve been a diehard fan since the beginning, and it’s been so gratifying to grow up for ten years to her music and watch her lyrical persona grow with me in a sort of musical character development. I admittedly didn’t think I’d be listening to easily my favourite album of hers in the lead-up to the release, but it really is. Ugh, I am embarrassingly proud of her for this album.

     


    (Album review)

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