Norman Fucking Rockwell - Pre-Release Thread

[Chorli Xbox]

Just listened to BTD/Paradise again. NFR sounds underproduced , lazy compared to it and I prefer the way Lana uses her voice on previous albums (darker, less breathy/airy). Not saying this is a bad album, still gonna play Cinnamon Girl a lot, but I do think it's going to be one of my least favorite.

[gatadelrey]

it finally let me update my picture. now I feel like an official member .

[realclosetojesus]

That change of mic in the beginning of Cinnamon is starting to kill me now, I can't stop noticing it

[Chorli Xbox]

That change of mic in the beginning of Cinnamon is starting to kill me now, I can't stop noticing it

 

Ikr it just sounds/feels so sloppy

[Chestnut Fox Sexy Jesus]

The ending to Cinnamon is fire! I’d love for Lana to take that direction next, something in the vein of Chromatics meets Apparat.

[Vertimus]

I really don't understand how people dislike Hope. It's so suffocatingly emotional. Such a perfectly raw blend of nihilism and optimism and a perfect picture of what living with depression for years feels like. Just a piano, a woman, and her pain. Perfection

That’s depression, not nihilism. Nihilists don’t regularly go to Christian churches, reference God in their songs and talk about their belief in God in interviews.

[CALL ME DN]

I really don't understand how people dislike Hope. It's so suffocatingly emotional. Such a perfectly raw blend of nihilism and optimism and a perfect picture of what living with depression for years feels like. Just a piano, a woman, and her pain. Perfection

i loved hope since it was released and i still do, it's so beautiful to me

[FallingCherry]

MY MOM JUST CAME BACK HOME WITH A COPY OF THE ALBUM!!! She got it from her friend who works in a store, my plan worked, I'm a fuckin' genius

 

Brb in an hour, I have to listen now, I cannot wait any longer

[Highway Noir]

Another version of FIILY was added on PPL.. or was it always there? anyways guessing that is the new version from the album!

 

 

[warmcookies]

Incredible. Can't stop listening. Goddamn.

[CmonDownToFL]

Never mind I just learned how to read

[transfemmefatale]

I think more people would’ve had a warmer reception to Hope if it hadn’t been a single and saved to first be heard in the context of the album as a whole esp as the closer.

[Vertimus]

Just listened to BTD/Paradise again. NFR sounds underproduced , lazy compared to it and I prefer the way Lana uses her voice on previous albums (darker, less breathy/airy). Not saying this is a bad album, still gonna play Cinnamon Girl a lot, but I do think it's going to be one of my least favorite.

I rate it a ‘C.’ The songwriting seems lazy and flaccid on most of the songs. She seemed to be trying to achieve a very low dynamic, and she succeeded.

 

She also said it was a folk album with surf overtones—I certainly don’t hear folk, though the title track’s production seems to be a slight shoutout to Joni Mitchell’s ‘Court & Spark,’ and there’s the too-obvious Ladies of the Canyon reference.

 

Like many of her albums, there’s strong and weak tracks, good and bad. ‘HIAB’ still sounds like 3 completely different songs badly mashed together, like a third-rate B-side. She completely wastes the ‘happiness is a butterfly’ parts with the unfortunate other sections.

 

I also miss the pure audacity, beauty and creativity she revealed on songs like ‘Live or Die,’ ‘Last Girl on Earth,’ ‘Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight,’ and especially ‘Angels Forever,’ ‘Hollywood,’ and ‘JFK.’

[WildMustang]

MY MOM JUST CAME BACK HOME WITH A COPY OF THE ALBUM!!! She got it from her friend who works in a store, my plan worked, I'm a fuckin' genius

 

Brb in an hour, I have to listen now, I cannot wait any longer

Tell us about fiily, which version you have

[TrashMagiq]

I love how stores are just selling the album already

[WildMustang]

I rate it a ‘C.’ The songwriting seems lazy and flaccid on most of the songs. She seemed to be trying to achieve a very low dynamic, and she succeeded.

 

She also said it was a folk album with surf overtones—I certainly don’t hear folk, though the title track’s production seems to be a slight shoutout to Joni Mitchell’s ‘Court & Spark,’ and there’s the too-obvious Ladies of the Canyon reference.

 

Like many of her albums, there’s strong and weak tracks, good and bad. ‘HIAB’ still sounds like 3 completely different songs badly mashed together, like a third-rate B-side. She completely wastes the ‘happiness is a butterfly’ parts with the unfortunate other sections.

 

I also miss the pure audacity, beauty and creativity she revealed on songs like ‘Live or Die,’ ‘Last Girl on Earth,’ ‘Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight,’ and especially ‘Angels Forever,’ ‘Hollywood,’ and ‘JFK.’

It's be 100 years since those songs

[realclosetojesus]

Can someone record the interview? It looks like you can't listen outside the US

[xxmissdaytonaxx]

where is everyone gonna be listening to the album for the first time? i’m in college and its gonna be midnight so i’ll probably lay in my dorm in the dark while listening to the album on full blast with my headphones. i know using headphones on the first listen will be an EXPERIENCE.

[yourboy]

Can someone record the interview? It looks like you can't listen outside the US

I live in Asia and it works for me!

[WildMustang]

Lana is Europhobic wbk