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I honestly don't mind that there's been a bit of a break between the last two projects and whatever this upcoming one ends up being. I loved getting two albums in one year, but it was really chaotic and neither album really had enough time to marinate/have a proper rollout, which is something that Lana usually does (in her own way, of course ). I don't think it's gonna be a major amount of time until the LDR9 era starts though because there's usually not too big of a gap between albums. The things we have gotten from Lana this year (the Italy trip/Gucci show, the W magazine shoot and her being in New York, her Honeymoon posts) have me excited to see what comes out of this next era

chemtrails and bb both had chaotic rollouts and she announced everything so quickly and sporadically and i think she’s trying not to do that here. i honestly think she wants a more proper era – she hasn’t really been promising anything before it’s done (just teasing songs, giving some insight, a snippet, teasing the existence of ldrx) and hasn’t been giving random album names & dates. hopefully that means this album will have a stronger rollout when we actually get to it

This is unpopular but I don't really mind Ben's updates, we know not to take them too seriously but they also are nice reminders that an album really is coming, even if it's not our definition of soon 

Cause my body’s my temple 
My heart’s like one too 
The only thing that gets to me 
Is that fucking word ‘soon’
😍🚀

btd has always been successful and there's various songs from her discography going viral, not only from btd
 
they definitely wanted her to go back to this type of sound (meeting with adele's producer for ultraviolence, asking her to record an extra radio friendly song for honeymoon) but she proved them wrong on several occassions so i don't even think there's any discussions of this sort at this point in her career nor it should be

She released 2 albums last year...

This woman has released an album pretty much every year since Born To Die. She released a poetry book in 2020 and 2 albums in 2021. Let her breathe a bit and perfect the album so no one's complaining about "rushed" this or rushed that. Don't say you're over LDR 8 when we all know that you will be streaming whether it comes out in 6 months or 6 years from now. 

I'm sure Lana is feeding Ben fake dates. Poor dude.

I'm desensitized to Ben's comments. Like he could say "a beautiful new album coming this week" and I wouldn't move 
 
They keep using the rocket emoji tho... maybe Rocketfeller is coming 

We’ll find out soon

Rockafella! 

…scat? 

I love how Lana said it's LDR10 but Ben insists it's LDR9

12 tracks. No unreleased/leaked material. 2 tracks over 10 minutes long (track 6 and track 12). Opening track is 8 minutes long. One interlude (track 7, produced by Antonoff) with a distorted suburbia-gone-wrong soundscape à la LA Who Am I to Love You as the album changes from East Coast jazzy richness to ambient spacey contemplation. Last two tracks are produced by Antonoff, track 13 is the automatic singing track they recorded in April, while track 14 (final track) is Venice Bitch's old wise sister. The rest of the tracks are produced by Rick Nowels, Jon Batiste, Drew Erickson, Father John Misty, and Jonathan White. No tracks under 5 minutes. The first half is all about New York, while the second half is about San Francisco and LA. Will be dropped digitally on the last day of the Grammy deadline to troll her competition, as she gets a 10.0 score from Pitchfork. The album will be submitted - and accepted - in the Jazz category. Lana will win AOTY and Best Jazz Vocal Album. Lana cites Miles Davis, Billie Holiday and John Coltrane as her biggest inspirations. Lead single is track 3 (MV shot in NY). Second single's MV is shot in California (San Francisco).
 

yeah it is definitely Ian Fitchuk, he probably just had his hair back or something. same nose and everything, and lana tends to work with people in the same circle so the fact that he is affiliated with gabe simon + nikki lane pretty much sells it for me too

I actually think it’s pretty cool if it is him. He produced all the songs on Golden Hour. She could potentially be working with 2 producers that have won album of the year at the Grammys, if Jon Batiste is also involved. 

We really went from pop producer to country producer real quick. 

also after doing some digging, i’m almost positive that “Ian” is Ian Fitchuk—he follows Nikki Lane on IG, and he also works with Gabe Simon who produced Text Book and BB title track. Ian Fitchuk is also a redhead with a beard lmfao, it has to be him. he also produced the entire Golden Hour album by Kacey Musgraves and has other credits with Maren Morris and Little Big Town so… the country album is truly under way

Lana is funny as fck 😭 
 
Putting the random story of her new producer in between video reviews of clothes in a parking lot in LA There's nobody like her 

This is exactly what I thought when I saw his stories! 
 
I kinda love these spooky ambient sounds. Kinda perfect for LDR9's icy oceanic spacey feel.