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    5 minutes ago, littleredpartydress said:

    Mojos review: "Superb, Joni-tinged follow up to Norman Fucking Rockwell: 4/5"

     

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    "The intoxicating strain of California anomie that pervaded 2019's Norman Fucking Rockwell is still, thankfully strong on Del Rey's excellent seventh album. Indeed, Chemtrails over the Country Club initially sounds much like a straightforward equal to that album and its hazy subversions of old Hollywood chic. there is, though, a more explicit autobiographical edge, a preoccupation with notions of authenticity and, as the album progresses, a powerful expansion of Del Rey's folkier inclinations. hence country twangs (on Wild at Heart and Nikki Lane duet Breaking up Slowly) and a tentative reorientation away from manicured lawns towards wilder terrains: Yosemite and the storied canyons of LA. Neat too how she references covering Joni Michell (and Joan Baez, Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love) on the outstanding Dance Till We Die, and then does just that, with a gorgeous version of For Free. The last voice on that track is Weyes Blood, though you would be forgiven for thinking it was Joni herself. 

     

     

    AHHHHH

     

    wild at heart having country twang!!!!! this WILL be my fav

     

    also sounds like for free will have solo verses from WB and ZD.

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    my ranking based on what we know so far of the songs...this is obviously really hard! my rankings here would indicate "meh" feelings about COCC and LMLYLAW but i looove those songs– am just anticipating being obsessed with the album as a whole, so hard to rank them. likewise i love the TJF snippet...wonder how accurate this will end up being for me though.

     

    1. wild at heart

    2.white dress

    3.. not all who wander

    4.. breaking up slowly

    5.. COCC

    6. yosemite

    7. dark but just a game

    8. LMLYLAW

    9. TJF

    10. dance til we die

    11. for free (love the song, love that she's covering it, but covers will always rank lowest when im ranking other original songs ive never heard)

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    43 minutes ago, J.R.OMEGA said:

     

    I'm guessing the way Beth Gibbons sings is what she's referring to, because musically Portishead are one of the Godfathers of the Trip-Hop movement. I don't really imagine Lana going trip-hop especially given how she's described COCC thus far. Also, is she referring to Dummy, Portishead (self-titled 2nd album) or Third because all 3 albums are all different sonically ?‍♂️ The heavy, deep bass of Dummy still gets me all tingling inside when I play that album at ridiculously loud volume ?Nonetheless, name dropping Portishead makes me really excited !! ? 

     

    i don't know, TJF sort of leans in a portishead-y direction sonically (from what we can tell of the clip, anyhow). i know the album as a whole won't be trip-hoppy but i do wonder about these 2 songs.

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  17. Posted

    7 minutes ago, cherryblossoms said:

    Re: Dark But Just a Game

    Portishead? Portishead?! :defeated:

     

    i know!! i wonder if this means electronic elements? def something v moody. i forget the instrument run-down for this track and am too lazy to look it up rn.

    Just now, Mer said:

    Low-key got triggered when she called 40 degrees "cold" when I woke up to snow and 28 degree weather in this stupid little coastal town I'm trapped in...

     

    Super excited for the chorus of White Dress though now :trisha:

     

    as a so cal girl i high key identify with calling anything below 60 degrees cold lololol

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    11 minutes ago, PatentLeatherDoOver said:

    I’m really curious what the vocals on White Dress will sound like given that Lana described them as “not great.” Does she mean it’s pitchy or just not super polished & vulnerable? I’m definitely hoping for the latter, but I have a good feeling about it regardless

     

    Also, I’m so hyped for Dark But Just A Game now; referencing Ginsberg’s work is a nice nod to her love of beat poetry, and her description of it makes me think it’ll be one of the record’s best tracks 

     

    yeah i'm thinking PWYC style unpolished and vulnerable– which i love! would always much rather an emotionally-saturated vocal than a "perfect" one.

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  20. Posted

    13 minutes ago, honeybadger said:

    "dark but just a game mixes portishead, ricky nelson's song garden party and allen ginsberg's poem howl into a potent statement of defiance" :oopna:

     

    definitely will be a statement then... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl :hype:

     

    i'm interested in how she incorporates garden party and howl– with direct references? does she interpolate some part of garden party? could be anything!

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  22. Posted

    7 minutes ago, ladylazaroos said:

    I’m so impressed. Her best interview in a long time! I’m getting a bit nervous for this next album just because she herself seems so unsure about it... but I get the feeling that’s because it’s very sincere and vulnerable??? I hope so.

     

    The whole interview feels like a confirmation of how traumatized she is about being so harshly discredited by the media for so long ? but at the same time I love how they accepted how she recognizes her own power and influence in “I wanted music to change in the early 2000s and I wanted it to be better than it was. I think it is and I genuinely think I had a hand in it for female singer-songwriters”. They don’t land like shots from  a weaponised ego - more the affirmations of someone who still feels as if she doesn’t say it, nobody will.” ?

     

    i think she's unsure because it doesn't maybe have an arc or sound that draws it into one big universe the way, for example, NFR did (she mentions the sun-washed production)– she says it has an essence of a "life lived," meaning the connecting factor is her and her perspective, rather than production and narrative tying it all together maybe. idk, i am not worried at all, i think in some ways it might feel more raw than, say, LFL and NFR.

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