TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021

[lizzyschemtrails 2,832]

7 minutes ago, DLT said:

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I’ve been trying to catch this too lol. All I really make out is the “you know what I’m saying” part lol. Her tone makes me laugh there. It’s cute. 

 

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I think she says "if you don't pray, you'll never learn", and then "you know what I'm saying?" or "you know I'm a saint"

 

[Lustformoney 41,443]

@Jack Antonoff im sorry for every bad thing ive said about you

Dark but just a game snatched my wig to the space and murdered me

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is it only me that hears that few parts are straight out of The Weeknds Starboy?? BITCH IM LIVING

 

[lizzyschemtrails 2,832]

Just now, Lustformoney said:

@Jack Antonoff im sorry for every bad thing ive said about you

Dark but just a game snatched my wig to the space and murdered me

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is it only me that hears that few parts are straight out of The Weeknds Starboy?? BITCH IM LIVING

 

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OMG I said this a few pages back... definitely picked up on it in the pre-chorus!!

 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,044]

So, I felt bad for the leak, which I shamefully contributed to, so I bought a boxset of the album.

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And having heard the album, it’s cuter than on Jan 11. I still prefer Neil’s pictures, but I kinda get the cover better. The back picture though is gorgeous. 

 

[Lustformoney 41,443]

Just now, Nadia14 said:

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OMG I said this a few pages back... definitely picked up on it in the pre-chorus!!

 

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im a the weeknd stan so im collapsing rn

 

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3 minutes ago, WildMustang said:

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Yosemite sounds like it was made for this album , it's actually surprising to me that it could be a part of LFL 

 

The original LFL was probably very similar to the sound of CoCc.  TNC, the Beautiful People-demo and Yosemite have a similar vibe to what she did with songs like DTWD or NAHWAL

[GeminiLanaFan 49,044]

2 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

@Jack Antonoff im sorry for every bad thing ive said about you

Dark but just a game snatched my wig to the space and murdered me

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is it only me that hears that few parts are straight out of The Weeknds Starboy?? BITCH IM LIVING

 

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Dark But Just a Game sounds to me like the most « Jack song » of the lot, very retro. It’s beautiful. 

 

[Lavender Sunshine 4,246]

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Miss Lana did NOT have to go that hard and destroy me on the opener 

 

[electra 20,644]

okay so i never do song or album breakdowns basically ever but the opinions on this album are so polarising i have decided to throw my two cents in. i've listened to the album twice and i'm going to listen to the album again while writing this. i personally think this is her best album and considered NFR her best album before this.

 

 

overview

back to front this is a beautiful album experience. one of the most satisfying first listens of an album i have ever heard. i love the fact we had nothing other than two songs and honestly if i had heard nothing this would have been even more satisfying. it's an extremely cohesive selection of songs (even yosemite) with beautiful builds, catchy choruses and is very experimental at times - both vocally from lana and production-wise from jack. this is by far her most abstract and experimental album with some of her most interesting and thought-provoking lyrics. overall, i've always enjoyed her lyrics where she's directly telling the listener specific stories - her songwriting abilities often blossom then - and this album is a very good example of that.

 

@wraith made a fantastic point when we were listening together that the overall flow of the album is similar to madonna's confessions on a dancefloor - where there's lots of slow builds, tension rises and releases, all of which are in very good and interesting timings. both jack and lana seemed to have a fantastic understanding of how to let the instrumentation speak and tell stories around her narratives. i don't know if this has been much commented, but the overall builds and changes in sound are very similar to some of the backing instrumentals in Violet, which could often be very chaotic but also very restrained depending on the shift of tone lana was looking for.

 

i'm really impressed by how lana and jack handled the instrumentals. the album is similar to NFR, but the sound is warmer and also feels more live surprisingly. it is very easy to imagine lana and her band performing one live take of the songs in a studio.

 

white dress

a beautiful opening track. there are times where her vocals literally do not even sound like her. her dreamy highs in the jazzy tone of her voice when she hits that chorus is a wall of emotion. her voice is so delicate here - you literally trust every gasp and whisper in her voice. when the percussion quietly comes in during the second verse it gives her voice the perfect amount of support to allow her to come down from the high. and as it hits that second chorus and the music swells - that's the moment you know this is her magnum opus. i'm so glad she challenged herself vocally from track one. and it doesn't even stop there - just when you think the song is fading that instrumental comes back and blossoms. it's really notable here that despite the notable changes in the instrumentals volumes it never drowns her out. i think that was very smart of jack. she is always at the centrepiece of this song. the true definition of a performance. when she repeats "it makes me feel like a god", the quietness and delicateness of her voice has a beautiful contrast to the statement.

 

chemtrails over the country club

a beautiful title track, but wbk. beautiful and catchy and you will be singing this to yourself for weeks. beautiful example of the instrumentation builds in this album. the chaos of the last minute and a half of this song or so its wonderful. you can hear the warmth and safety in her voice - a beautiful, dreamy single with such interesting uses of sounds in the build. another beautiful element of this album is the rhythms of the percussion really help elevate some of the songs which is really true of chemtrails. the long outro of the drum here is beautiful and adds to this dreamy idea of her singing this song and performing forever and eternally.

 

tulsa jesus freak

i honestly thought i was going to dislike this but fuck me. when people mentioned auto-tune i thought what? but damn, this is probably some of the most beautiful use of auto-tune i've ever heard in my life. surprisingly delicate and when used as backing vocal it really supports her lead vocals so well. the get free-esque "white hot forever!" i could listen to forever. you can imagine the way she's effortlessly swaying and she sings this.

 

when she says "can we go back to the ranch baby?" damn. she sounds so delicate and fragile here. when she says "baby" you can almost here a refrain in her voice as if she sounds scared. lots of beautiful lines here - "can i make you laugh with a smile?", "you know when you chose me i was nothing but ordinary", "find your way back to my bed again" - all of which are made a million times more impactful simply by her delicate vocal delivery. the moments of spoken word in this are a lovely surprise as well. this is definitely going to be a grower, which is fantastic considering its already a great song from listen #1.

 

let me love you like a woman

i will never understand why she released this as a single, but it supports the album exceptionally well. the lyrics are wonderful and again it has a beautiful release. her vocals support themselves very well in the layering of the chorus here. probably one of the songs where her vocals sound the strongest (in a literal sense - the harmonies are very assertive and supportive). completely works in the context of the album.

 

wild at heart

starting every song on this album was like "god is this gonna be the flop?" but it just never happens. it kind of starts with an energy similar to love song, and then that chorus comes in. "i left calabasas!" - damn, so fun and free sounding. she really made the song sound like its title-sake. the change here is an amazing shift and really just adds something so beautiful. the sample from how to disappear is perfect. it's almost better in the context of this song. nothing has ever made me love a country sound more. @wraith made the really good point that the sound of this album is almost some kind of strange lana-del-rey-esque nu-country (he affectionally referred to it as "country 2").

 

don't fucking get me started in the choir harmonies. she fucking snapped so hard. it just makes me wants to tilt my head back in bliss and close my eyes and absorb every inch of her vocal.

 

dark but just a game

the start of some of the more 90s vibes of the album. we commented that its very similar to some of the earlier eels' albums and this is where i really fucking encourage people who love this song specifically to please, for the love of god, listen to either beautiful freak or electro-shock blues (the albums) by eels. the shifts between the verses with the percussion and the very majestic and magical choruses is a fantastic representation of that sound. i would find it hard to believe neither jack nor lana were inspired by that specific sound.

 

 

 

the shifts between the hip-hop-esque beats and the jazzy sound really hark back to that experimental 90s sound - and the layering of some of the strings really contributes to that. i definitely think lana sound do more of an alternative 90s rock sound in the future because she really pulls it off.

 

not all those who wander are lost

oh this is just lovely. again, the use of the random male vocal sample is really fun but i feel like it will be lost of some people. it really helps build the live sound of the album and again. lots of fun and again comes back to that 90s eels sound with the use of random sampling that helps create an interesting texture on the album and really brings a beautiful cohesion. this is probably the weakest song on the album for me...but i mean she's a 10/10 on an album of 11's. i love and appreciate this song so much. by this point in the album you should have hopefully realised this is a fantastic and timeless body of work from lana - this will shape the rest of her career.

 

yosemite

a really beautiful and surprisingly cohesive song. the bongos are so soft and subtle. the guitar loop is lovely. i can see how this could be a lust for life song but damn it really fits in the context of the album. another one of my least favourites but again it's like choosing between diamonds. i'm sure one day this will hit me. the focus on this track appears to be more on the lyrics and there's less focus on changes in the instrumentals, and i think that creates a lovely break from the rest of the tracks. and fuck yeah more spoken word! come on ms poet.

 

breaking up slowly

fuck all y'all, this is a great song. i have the chorus stuck in my head all the time now. has such a classic and timeless sound and all of the vocalists on this album are super complimentary. it's always great having some variations of voice tone and texture in albums. on the non-feature songs, lana pushed herself to be very vocally experimental and textured, which allows her to be more less so on this duet. these features are considerably less jarring than on lust for life and very complimentary of one another. lana's voice supports nikki very, very well. a lovely and dreamy guitar song, so classic and folk-y.

 

dance till we die

fucking gag. the chorus of this is so fucking catchy and the horns in this support the song so beautifully. the lyrics are so descriptive and reflective and fun. the build in this song is exceptional, and the bridge...

 

when she said "so we made a pack in the middle of the night..." it gives me goosebumps. the rise and crescendo here is brilliant.

 

for free

a lovely closer. probably her best album closer cover. like breaking up slowly, their voices really complimented one another. a lovely closer to the album. everyone's voices feel so real and trustworthy. when they come up in those highs it just sends shivers. it's so well produced and warm. weyes' really supports lana and zella so well, i love her tone of voice. my only wish is that the outro was maybe a bit more extended on jack's part but honestly it can be really refreshing to hear a little bit of restraint in jack's production.

 

tl:dr; her magnum opus. a great range of sounds and sonic visualisation. if you didn't like this and didn't like nfr i really just don't know what to tell you. that's on you. i would encourage people to listen to the band eels' if they enjoyed this album and sound, or maybe if you didn't so you can understand alternative music in this style a little bit more. i think this will be her best critically received album and i'm really interested to see how critics perceive this album from the stand-point of what they will consider it's genre, sound and inspiration but also how their going to rate it. i think this is potentially her first album that may receive a grammy if they nominate her in the right categories.

 

for once, i'm really looking forward to reading the reviews and consensus on this album. i have a feeling this will be her highest metacritic score too. the level of galaxy brain in the production of this album is insanity. i'm really looking forward to the release.

 

come on fantano just give it a fucking nine we know you want to.

[xxmissdaytonaxx 30,078]

2 hours ago, gasstationkween said:

You tell em, you’re the original

doll

thank u bestie 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,044]

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The songs we knew very few things about (Dark But Just a Game, Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Dance still We Die, Wild At Heart) are the ones that I will need to get back to in a couple of days. Dark is probably the one that stands the most at the Moment. I like all four very much, but they didn’t hit yet as much as White Dress or Yosemite or For Free. BUS is the one that surprised me the most, never thought I’d love it as much.

 

[whitelungswhitepalms 10,090]

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This album is so sweet, the way she sings it makes me feel like a god holy fuck. It sounds better after each listen. I’m so happy Yosemite sounds the way it does, it’s folky and sweet and everything I wanted from it ahhhhhhhh the whole experience from the first song to the last is 

 

[Crack Prince 507]

The songs are beautiful but the curation of this album is kinda poor. The name of the album makes no sense at all. Even Lust for Life works better as an album than this even though it had double the songs... Like it's even easy to curate 11 or even more of her unreleased songs and make an album that makes more sense than this. BUT the songs to me are better than most of what's on NFR.

[Lustformoney 41,443]

can we please cancel the spoiler tags everyone here heard it already

[Divisive Princess 3,754]

I don't think this is a spoiler but.... I like this album WAY more than I thought I would. I did like the title track but I didn't have much hope for the album and I wasn't really excited about it bc it's been a weird rollout and I wasn't convinced it was coming lmao and I also didn't love the country-esque visuals. But wow. I love this album. I've been playing it nonstop since the first time I heard it. The only song I actually dislike is LMLYLAW. I am just blown away by this album.

[Rust Dress 40,200]

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i think metacritic is going to like this album, im expecting like a 9. i figure the people who work there are older so 

 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,044]

I will get back at it in a couple of days, but as far as the story of her discography goes, here’s where I stand: 

 

Phase 1: BTD-UV-HM

Phase 2: LFL-NFR-COCC

 

the parallels are numerous to me. More to come in a couple of days. 

[Nahime 427]

2 hours ago, Lustformoney said:

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shes literally screaming in DTWD and TJF, WHY tf would she delete dealer.......

 

wha- jokes are supposed to be funny

I can tell you are the real joke coz you make me laugh ;).

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8 minutes ago, electra said:

okay so i never do song or album breakdowns basically ever but the opinions on this album are so polarising i have decided to throw my two cents in. i've listened to the album twice and i'm going to listen to the album again while writing this. i personally think this is her best album and considered NFR her best album before this.

 

 

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overview

back to front this is a beautiful album experience. one of the most satisfying first listens of an album i have ever heard. i love the fact we had nothing other than two songs and honestly if i had heard nothing this would have been even more satisfying. it's an extremely cohesive selection of songs (even yosemite) with beautiful builds, catchy choruses and is very experimental at times - both vocally from lana and production-wise from jack. this is by far her most abstract and experimental album with some of her most interesting and thought-provoking lyrics. overall, i've always enjoyed her lyrics where she's directly telling the listener specific stories - her songwriting abilities often blossom then - and this album is a very good example of that.

 

@wraith made a fantastic point when we were listening together that the overall flow of the album is similar to madonna's confessions on a dancefloor - where there's lots of slow builds, tension rises and releases, all of which are in very good and interesting timings. both jack and lana seemed to have a fantastic understanding of how to let the instrumentation speak and tell stories around her narratives. i don't know if this has been much commented, but the overall builds and changes in sound are very similar to some of the backing instrumentals in Violet, which could often be very chaotic but also very restrained depending on the shift of tone lana was looking for.

 

i'm really impressed by how lana and jack handled the instrumentals. the album is similar to NFR, but the sound is warmer and also feels more live surprisingly. it is very easy to imagine lana and her band performing one live take of the songs in a studio.

 

white dress

a beautiful opening track. there are times where her vocals literally do not even sound like her. her dreamy highs in the jazzy tone of her voice when she hits that chorus is a wall of emotion. her voice is so delicate here - you literally trust every gasp and whisper in her voice. when the percussion quietly comes in during the second verse it gives her voice the perfect amount of support to allow her to come down from the high. and as it hits that second chorus and the music swells - that's the moment you know this is her magnum opus. i'm so glad she challenged herself vocally from track one. and it doesn't even stop there - just when you think the song is fading that instrumental comes back and blossoms. it's really notable here that despite the notable changes in the instrumentals volumes it never drowns her out. i think that was very smart of jack. she is always at the centrepiece of this song. the true definition of a performance. when she repeats "it makes me feel like a god", the quietness and delicateness of her voice has a beautiful contrast to the statement.

 

chemtrails over the country club

a beautiful title track, but wbk. beautiful and catchy and you will be singing this to yourself for weeks. beautiful example of the instrumentation builds in this album. the chaos of the last minute and a half of this song or so its wonderful. you can hear the warmth and safety in her voice - a beautiful, dreamy single with such interesting uses of sounds in the build. another beautiful element of this album is the rhythms of the percussion really help elevate some of the songs which is really true of chemtrails. the long outro of the drum here is beautiful and adds to this dreamy idea of her singing this song and performing forever and eternally.

 

tulsa jesus freak

i honestly thought i was going to dislike this but fuck me. when people mentioned auto-tune i thought what? but damn, this is probably some of the most beautiful use of auto-tune i've ever heard in my life. surprisingly delicate and when used as backing vocal it really supports her lead vocals so well. the get free-esque "white hot forever!" i could listen to forever. you can imagine the way she's effortlessly swaying and she sings this.

 

when she says "can we go back to the ranch baby?" damn. she sounds so delicate and fragile here. when she says "baby" you can almost here a refrain in her voice as if she sounds scared. lots of beautiful lines here - "can i make you laugh with a smile?", "you know when you chose me i was nothing but ordinary", "find your way back to my bed again" - all of which are made a million times more impactful simply by her delicate vocal delivery. the moments of spoken word in this are a lovely surprise as well. this is definitely going to be a grower, which is fantastic considering its already a great song from listen #1.

 

let me love you like a woman

i will never understand why she released this as a single, but it supports the album exceptionally well. the lyrics are wonderful and again it has a beautiful release. her vocals support themselves very well in the layering of the chorus here. probably one of the songs where her vocals sound the strongest (in a literal sense - the harmonies are very assertive and supportive). completely works in the context of the album.

 

wild at heart

starting every song on this album was like "god is this gonna be the flop?" but it just never happens. it kind of starts with an energy similar to love song, and then that chorus comes in. "i let calabasas!" - damn, so fun and free sounding. she really made the song sound like its title-sake. the change here is an amazing shift and really just adds something so beautiful. the sample from how to disappear is perfect. it's almost better in the context of this song. nothing has ever made me love a country sound more. @wraith made the really good point that the sound of this album is almost some kind of strange lana-del-rey-esque nu-country (he affectionally referred to it as "country 2").

 

don't fucking get me started in the choir harmonies. she fucking snapped so hard. it just makes me wants to tilt my head back in bliss and close my eyes and absorb every inch of her vocal.

 

dark but just a game

the start of some of the more 90s vibes of the album. we commented that its very similar to some of the earlier eels' albums and this is where i really fucking encourage people who love this song specifically to please, for the love of god, listen to either beautiful freak or electro-shock blues (the albums) by eels. the shifts between the verses with the percussion and the very majestic and magical choruses is a fantastic representation of that sound. i would find it hard to believe neither jack nor lana were inspired by that specific sound.

 

 

 

the shifts between the hip-hop-esque beats and the jazzy sound really hark back to that experimental 90s sound - and the layering of some of the strings really contributes to that. i definitely think lana sound do more of an alternative 90s rock sound in the future because she really pulls it off.

 

not all those who wander are lost

oh this is just lovely. again, the use of the random male vocal sample is really fun but i feel like it will be lost of some people. it really helps build the live sound of the album and again. lots of fun and again comes back to that 90s eels sound with the use of random sampling that helps create an interesting texture on the album and really brings a beautiful cohesion. this is probably the weakest song on the album for me...but i mean she's a 10/10 on an album of 11's. i love and appreciate this song so much. by this point in the album you should have hopefully realised this is a fantastic and timeless body of work from lana - this will shape the rest of her career.

 

yosemite

a really beautiful and surprisingly cohesive song. the bongos are so soft and subtle. the guitar loop is lovely. i can see how this could be a lust for life song but damn it really fits in the context of the album. another one of my least favourites but again it's like choosing between diamonds. i'm sure one day this will hit me. the focus on this track appears to be more on the lyrics and there's less focus on changes in the instrumentals, and i think that creates a lovely break from the rest of the tracks. and fuck yeah more spoken word! come on ms poet.

 

breaking up slowly

fuck all y'all, this is a great song. i have the chorus stuck in my head all the time now. has such a classic and timeless sound and all of the vocalists on this album are super complimentary. it's always great having some variations of voice tone and texture in albums. on the non-feature songs, lana pushed herself to be very vocally experimental and textured, which allows her to be more less so on this duet. these features are considerably less jarring than on lust for life and very complimentary of one another. lana's voice supports nikki very, very well. a lovely and dreamy guitar song, so classic and folk-y.

 

dance till we die

fucking gag. the chorus of this is so fucking catchy and the horns in this support the song so beautifully. the lyrics are so descriptive and reflective and fun. the build in this song is exceptional, and the bridge...

 

when she said "so we made a pack in the middle of the night..." it gives me goosebumps. the rise and crescendo here is brilliant.

 

for free

a lovely closer. probably her best album closer cover. like breaking up slowly, their voices really complimented one another. a lovely closer to the album. everyone's voices feel so real and trustworthy. when they come up in those highs it just sends shivers. it's so well produced and warm. weyes' really supports lana and zella so well, i love her tone of voice. my only wish is that the outro was maybe a bit more extended on jack's part but honestly it can be really refreshing to hear a little bit of restraint in jack's production.

 

tl:dr; her magnum opus. a great range of sounds and sonic visualisation. if you didn't like this and didn't like nfr i really just don't know what to tell you. that's on you. i would encourage people to listen to the band eels' if they enjoyed this album and sound, or maybe if you didn't so you can understand alternative music in this style a little bit more. i think this will be her best critically received album and i'm really interested to see how critics perceive this album from the stand-point of what they will consider it's genre, sound and inspiration but also how their going to rate it. i think this is potentially her first album that may receive a grammy if they nominate her in the right categories.

 

for once, i'm really looking forward to reading the reviews and consensus on this album. i have a feeling this will be her highest metacritic score too. the level of galaxy brain in the production of this album is insanity. i'm really looking forward to the release.

 

come on fantano just give it a fucking nine we know you want to.

I love this so much

[Beautiful Loser 48,845]

1 minute ago, Lustformoney said:

can we please cancel the spoiler tags everyone here heard it already

Not true. Please keep using the spoiler tags.