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Sorry but I have to disagree. Ultraviolence has much more intricate and interesting melodies than NFR. A lot of the instrumentals on NFR feel unintentionally distored and weak, the whole album lacks bass, drum beats or even heavy electronic beats (besides HTD and Cinnamon Girl), which makes it sound dry and flat most of the time. It's about counterbalancing instruments to create a balanced sound. Nothing groundbreaking melodically, the piano bits all sound basic and not intricate. Also, I don't know who mixed that album, but Lana's voice sounds like a whisper on a lot of tracks, like it's drowned in weaky instrumentals. Ultraviolence is a fucking atmospheric and transcendent album, NFR can only wish. Norman Fucking Rockwell has great songs, but it's not as flawless as you make it sound to be, not saying Ultraviolence was either, but it's not on the same level for sure. Jackrabbit Antonoff pioneer my ass!

I did not know that and good for Amy, her record is spotless and a classic! I remember back in late 2014, early 2015 I was super pumped that Lana might be working with him. But since Honeymoon is perfect as is, I'm glad to know we didn't need his shitty input.

The thing about lyrical recurrence is that for a few songs span on several albums, it's fine. But when you already expect a couple songs on the album to be like "blue blue blue, pale moonlight, red party dress, Hollywood, throw a bunch of f and b words here and there" it's not much recurrence but rather redundancy and it can easily come across as lazy writing.

Clear and concise... and I agree.

Mark Ronson is long and gone (no pun intented). None of his new material sounds like Back To Black, it's very much repetitive pop music. Which is surprising because he seems to be working with Kevin Parker (btw the second coming over Christ) even their recent collabs sound a tad bland (Perfect Illusion, and that one song with Camila)

I think she did on Honeymoon, the whole album was very different lyrically (ok she dipped into familiar water once in a few tracks), but for the most part it felt really fresh, especially on Honeymoon, MTWBT, Terrence Loves You.

Venice Bitch really should've been the album closing tracks smh

Agree they pretty much stand alone in her discography. The current lyrical choices are a bit weird to me too. I love the serial killer parts sound in HIAB, but the song as a whole just doesn't make sense to me. The lyrical creativity is certainly lost on a lot of songs on this album.

I mean maybe I don't describe it well, or maybe I just can't really identify that specific instrument, but it sounded off to me lol

I honestly always feel bad for ranking Born To Die below her other albums, because in 2012 it was THAT album, and I've listened an awful lot of times, it is iconic. the other two are just far superior.

around 2:30

Maybe it's just my files

I honestly feel like sometimes Lana uses some lyrics because she knows she's going to entice reactions from her hardcore fans, especially when she references previous songs, ESPECIALLY unreleased.

Can't help but think that this a bit of Jack's fault, he's not all what makes himself up to be.

you're both saying that your opinions don't count... hmmm

Wow California turned out to be a tie with The greatest

Saying this is not her best, is not the same as saying it's bad you guys. I can already tell that the album is 3-4 songs too long, and can pick apart stuff that just sound weird/cheap in both the production and the mixing. It's new, it's fresh, so for me it's just laughable when people are quick to call it her best when it's not even out yet, even funnier calling this her Magum Opus. Still a good album, but the audacity of some of y'all

ok so here how it goes So I guess that's it

Maybe it's a bit soon to make assumptions but

Oh wow

Honestly besides his little Fantano army, who gives a shit about what he thinks? He's literally the epitome of pitchfork readers/indie music reviewers who think their opinion should be plastered everywhere and loves listening to himself talking shit about albums he's never going to be able to make himself. He's literally one of those who started the Lana hate movementTM. He can honestly choke.

I don't think I have ever laughed this hard in my entire life. That was good one, tell us another!

It's a bit artsy, a bit nautical, a bit industrial, a bit pop art, a bit 90s, a bit... Chuck.

right? The whole aesthetic of this era is very nonsensical, like she just went along and added a bunch of random stuff along the way and it's just all over the place AND of course Ch*ck had to be involved in the process and put the last nail in the coffin with her DIY vision