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Lana posted. Per the second photo, it looks like she was at a protest yesterday with her friends Val & Tessa -
http://instagram.com/p/CA2_uEaJnpU/

for me , its missing "Cowbell".
 
It needs more Cowbell ! 

Thanks, Paradixo.
 
I just feel like at the end of the day it all comes down to personal preferences and I'm just not a fan of the "'NFR!'sound", just not my cup of tea I guess. Might be too extreme to call the album "cheap", but that's kind of how I felt listening to the album multiple times even on FLAC.
 
I hope they switch things a little for the next record. Like she goes back to something similar to her earlier albums, sonically.

But for real, I'm by no means a sound engineer. I think I'm just an audiophile.
 
But, to me there's something kinda flat or muffled, and quite frankly, iffy about the overall sound quality of this album, like the record quality or mastering process gave this album this kind of flat/dry type of sound? I don't mean to beat a dead horse as I've made my point on several occasions in the pre and post release threads and even in the White Hot Forever/LDR7 thread, but I'm just not a fan of this type of sound. It's just kind of muffled and for a lack of a better word "cheap". I also think that for the most part the album cruelly lacks bass or beat to complement or create depth in sound, I don't know. It's very "off the shelf" there's not the same attention to detail sonically speaking. By all means, it's an alright album, but there's something just so beige, basic and/or simple about it, especially the production. Sorry, not sorry.
 
I feel like with her past records, especially the first three, there was a sense of intensity and grandeur in the sound? 'Born To Die' and 'Paradise' had that crisp/clear type of sound on each tracks, some say it's overproduced, and I could agree to that to a certain extent, but it just sounded like a really slick and clean pop record.
 
'Ultraviolence' was very atmospheric, I am a fan of the raw type of sound, I feel like the instrumentation on the album is intricate, intense and superb. I love that, and this is according to both Dan and Lana, the songs were recorded with a live band. Someone said in the LDR7 thread recently that it's once-in-a-lifetime record and I very much agree with that.
 
'Honeymoon' has got to be her most lush album as far as production goes. There's something just really beautiful and balanced, yet again intricate, about the way the album sounds, it's like the perfect mix of a classical/movie score type of sound and modern trap beats? It's just very beautiful, lush, elegant and cinematic.
 
I won't really get into how I feel about 'Lust for Life' as I think that the album is just kind of all over the place artistically speaking, but for the most part even the songs I don't like I think as far as audio goes, they sound good. But I was not a fan of how the trap beats were just overused here, kinda cheapened the whole experience. There are highs and lows on the album, but the songs I really like on there, they sound great.
 
So yeah, and this is very personal, I'm just not a fan of the so called 'NFR' sound.

It amazes how quickly people can say they don't like Lana anymore, just her music. We don't know anything about how her last few days have been. She had pretty rough week last week in the public eye and everyone told her she needs to take a deep breath and stay off social media. That's what she's doing. I'd be scared to post anything too if I was her. The video she posted was very sad to watch and it's clear she's hurting and doesn't know how to express herself right now. Maybe for her own mental health she can't handle any more backlash. And let's be real, everyone is posting about this right now and everyone is aware. Lana's input isn't going to add much to the conversation. People seem to think that Instagram is the be-all-end-all of activism, but there is so much more we could and should be doing. We don't have a clue what she's doing or how she's feeling right now, so let's not tear her apart when there are a lot more important things to be putting our energy into at the moment, especially when we haven't a clue how Lana is reacting to the current state of the country. Stop treating her like the enemy, she is not a bad person, she's human, and I believe in her to help when and how she can.

will this thread ever not be a dumpster fire

'Chemtrails Over The Country Club' while sounding more like coffee table book title, is actually a great album title. Much less cringe than 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!'.

I just want luxurious sounds, soft and sexy vocals, emotional bridges and sounds that are large than life. Just like BTD/Paradise/UV

Lust For Life isn’t a bad album by any means, it’s just not cohesive, which is what we’ve come to expect from Lana. To me, it feels almost like a compilation album. I feel like it has a little of all her previous works (even AKA), which is why I agree with the theory about it being the end of a “cycle” and Norman being the start of a new one.

Whilst I think it was completely stupid and unnecessary to namedrop anyone in her letter to the "culture", I kinda wish that she had namedropped Lorde and Halsey instead. This would've turned into a completely different situation. 

Does anyone else remember when she said this album would be a surprise drop?
 
She hardly ever gives a release date unless it's like a week before, and then when she is doing a "surprise drop", she gives us the exact release date four months before.
 

I like the title, it's interesting and weird, better than WHF imo. Love that lana always has such creative and bold song and album names!
 
Already a new album... honestly we’re lucky as fans that she’s so productive and works fast, i guess that’s our reward for her being a goddamn mess. I hate how this “era” started…

Imagine being involved with Lena Dunham. 

In hindsight, it was foreshadowing Lana being a bit reckless.
 
If he can't handle it, then maybe Lana should work with someone that's able to understand and redirect that angst to get her creative juice flowing and push her to creative highs. This is where Dan Auerbach could make a glorious comeback.  
 
Also, welcome back!

I think she just can't really capture her own sound in her own words sometimes.
 
Just going by examples: when she said we'd hear the 'Born To Die' strings on 'Ultraviolence', but that ended up just being on the title track. Or that 'Honeymoon' would be this jazzy album with a touch of "soft grunge", but it ended up being this very cinematic record mixed with trap beats (with some jazz-y influences, but still not the golden era of jazz album she initially described). Or when she said we'd hear a lot of 60s pop/Shangri Las influences on 'Lust for Life' but besides some light instrumentation and the doo wop doo wop on the title track and on 'Get Free' the record was nothing like that. Now with 'NFR!', sis said the album would be reminiscent of Red Hot Chili Peppers... that was just straight up wrong.

There are already two things I'm sure about this record:
 
1. There won't be a clear "aesthetic".
2. Whatever Lana says about how the album is going to be like sonically, it's going to sound nothing like what she described.

There are already two things I'm sure about this record:
 
1. There won't be a clear "aesthetic".
2. Whatever Lana says about how the album is going to be like sonically, it's going to sound nothing like what she described.

I think she just can't really capture her own sound in her own words sometimes.
 
Just going by examples: when she said we'd hear the 'Born To Die' strings on 'Ultraviolence', but that ended up just being on the title track. Or that 'Honeymoon' would be this jazzy album with a touch of "soft grunge", but it ended up being this very cinematic record mixed with trap beats (with some jazz-y influences, but still not the golden era of jazz album she initially described). Or when she said we'd hear a lot of 60s pop/Shangri Las influences on 'Lust for Life' but besides some light instrumentation and the doo wop doo wop on the title track and on 'Get Free' the record was nothing like that. Now with 'NFR!', sis said the album would be reminiscent of Red Hot Chili Peppers... that was just straight up wrong.

There are already two things I'm sure about this record:
 
1. There won't be a clear "aesthetic".
2. Whatever Lana says about how the album is going to be like sonically, it's going to sound nothing like what she described.

i'm speaking this out of existence 

we're not all crappy fake stans meet clout chasers ya know

She would never bc she likes to start her albums with the title track most times. Either that or it’s the second track on the album

Here we go again...

Both honeymoon and it’s UO covers are both amazing and quintessential Lana at her best.... lust for who tho we don’t know her

Absolutely not.