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Violets for Roses actually sound tremendously better on vinyl in my own opinion. I didn't love it the first time I listened but when I got the vinyl pressing I really did love the atmosphere it created 

Yeah, the best medium to listen to Blue Banisters is vinyl. I'm not home nearly enough to enjoy it, but it's always so lovely when I do

she just needed to go full country on that record but fine we’ll be here on 2030 for that lana x nikki album !!

girl.. lemme take my record player on the bus with me

Also not to forget that Lana refers to all of her albums as records. The sound is fully meant to be played on a record player to have full enjoyment. What you don't notice in a casual listen doesn't mean it can't be appreciated on other mediums. 

Honeymoon remains not only the best but also the MOST mixed and mastered album of her entire career. 7 and a half years later and I still discover a little flute here and there or a hidden sax behind so many layers but still very much palpable. I really love Jack as a producer for Lana and Clairo specifically but Honeymoon is on a totally different level for me. It sounds expensive.

Okay I’ve been thinking the sample is going to be from NFR (the song). Kinda like a bookend to the NFR-TUOB era kinda how LFL bookends BTD. Anyway, DBJAG is kind of the sister track of NFR that uses the original melody iirc. So maybe the sample will tie them all together?

if you want to talk about a great jack produced song
whoever normally fucks up the mixing/mastering did not do it with that song

I actually love BB, the unreleased she added to it are some of my fav unreleased so that probably contributes. WFWF is a career highlight. It has its flaws and some of its lows are low I do think overall it’s gorgeous. 

Blue Banisters is one of those albums that I enjoy relaxing at home with or getting work done with. It's her most gentle and soothing album, so it really helps me be productive. I personally think the album has some of her best lyricism to date (yes, some of her worst as well)
 
You can't be a muse and be happy too, you can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry and be happy
 
What I can promise is I'll lie down
Like a bed of wildflowers
And I'll always make the sheets
Smell like gardenias wild at your feet
And I nourish you hazily
 
My father never stepped in
When his wife would rage at me
So I ended up awkward but sweet
Later than hospitals and still on my feet
Comfortably numb but with lithium came poetry
 
 
California, homeland of the Gods
Once I found my way but now I am lost
 
 
Plenty of more examples, but it's a very comforting record for me, I love the lyricism on most of the tracks, and it's easy to wind down and let its melodies carry you away.

I’m starting to wonder if I need to get my hearing checked because I genuinely don’t notice the mixing issues regardless of what I’m listening on 

Literally hurts in the ear. I tried really hard to like it, but I didn't. It seems so uninspired. Then there's Violet for Roses, which, despite being a bit more polished, isn't the album's strong point either.

Period.. both devils in my eyes. 
 
but my main enemy is, and always will be, laura sisk 

Oh, it's the complete opposite for me. Her vocals are so loud, it's such an ear-rape situation  
Overall, the mixing (and production) on Blue Banisters as a whole is a mess, except for a few tracks. But again, it adds to the "raw" essence, so it might be on purpose and just not my cup of tea

Yeah, Tunnel is crystal clear on any system I use to listen to music. Either BB was extremely rushed, or whoever mixed it needs to be terminated and never touch another Lana record again.
 
DON'T FORGET ME 

jack discourse again so i’m just gonna say it again as well, i don’t understand any of the hate! not even on the mixing, which i’ve seen people criticize too. there’s not a single lana+jack song besides one that i listen to the instrumental of and think “oh this is bad”. other than that awful out of place beat that was added to How to Disappear, the only complaints with some of the songs he’s worked on actually stem from lana herself, like the melodies (which she writes) are boring or drag on. but i don’t have a single complaint about any of his production or mixing choices besides HTD

I'm also hoping that we receive a transition as beautiful as the one between Freak and Art Deco on Honeymoon. The mixing on that album was just so ahead of its time. 
 

Beautiful was whatever but Arcadia and specially IYLDWM were amazing. I'm a proud Drew stan  
 
He also arranges for FJM and they nail it every time. I think the problem with Beautiful is that Drew works better when doing full orchestras (or at least some strings) so a lone piano didn't let him shine (even though the tinkling was pretty).

I actually belive you because I think she’s sampling the part of Hate Demon that says “they gon write about it like they was right about it”

Wait does anybody have a link to this now I'm curious. 

jack and drew competing to see who can have the biggest snoozer on lana discography and they end up making the same song 

i’m just getting music nerdy now but no really i would love her to do something really odd like that, not only is it just cool and different but it’s literally compositionally commendable and impressive lol

It’s actually the opposite 💀 Lana told Annie Mac that she “really really wanted more from Jack” and said elsewhere that she encouraged Jack to go “wilder” with the production (which I guess certainly doesn’t help lessen the often unwarranted hate for Jack here lol) - but I guess it might have been difficult to be on the same page since they were apart as Chemtrails was being finalized during the early pandemic (Lana in LA and Jack in NY).

just as roachella was lana's fault, bootiful was also lana's fault
just accept that

Yeah. Until the release of the album in March, she'll probably have written half of LDR10. 
 
Anyway, if fingertips is as dense and wordy as Lana says and Erickson has somehow managed to make it work, then he should win every single Producer of the Year award next year.  And given that both Kintsugi and BOZ love it, I guess the Erickson haters will be in shambles next March.