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

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honeybadger    40,617

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14 minutes ago, hip hop in the summer said:

omgawd no way its dope :hair:

 

 

the way i was about to warn you that sharing links might get you banned and then i pressed play :isee: :dance:

 

honestly i applaud him for putting in all this effort like an entire cover album? lana's cover album could never

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prettywhenimhigh    49,192

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like madonna said

time goes by so. SLOWLY. :tommy:

feels like an eternity now that we're closer than ever, are we really sure it's dropping midnight?

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Br00klynbaby    59

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THE TIMES:Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club review — the artist launches her best image yet. Herself

(4/5 STARS)

 

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Ever since she made a big splash in 2011 with Video Games, a song so moody and glamorous it could have been a figment of David Lynch’s imagination, Lana Del Rey has been an unsettling star. Variously written off as inauthentic, anti-feminist, narcissistic and irresponsible (for saying she wanted to die, an interviewer’s misinterpretation as it turned out), she hasn’t had an easy ride. And the albums have been up and down, from the lows of the VIP-area-friendly Lust for Life in 2017 to the highs of Norman F***ing Rockwell!, a vision of America in crisis, in 2019 . Now, having tried on all kinds of costumes, Del Rey has a new look: herself.

 

Set to the kind of plaintive songwriting that Joni Mitchell and Carole King did so well in the early 1970s, Chemtrails Over the Country Club turns the lens on to Del Rey’s past. It begins with her voice struggling at the top of its range on White Dress, bringing previously unheard vulnerability as she reminisces about being 19, working as a waitress, listening to the White Stripes and plying her wares at a music business conference, a glimpse of innocence before fame and its attendant tensions took over. It is very moving.

From there the album moves on to Chemtrails Over the Country Club, its title evoking the failure of luxury to erase paranoia, with images of Del Rey swimming in the pool in her jewellery, drag racing in her sports car and generally leading a privileged life that’s tinged with ennui. There’s a romantic but tragic vision of America throughout, from Tulsa Jesus Freak’s tale of an affair with an alcoholic Bible basher to a ghostly ballad called Yosemite, on which Del Rey sings in pure but resigned tones: “You made me feel invincible, like a candle in the wind.”

Every now and then you wish for a change in mood, something upbeat to bring balance, but for the most part the decision to keep things simple and subdued works. The Portishead-like Dark But Just a Game was inspired by Del Rey meeting a one-time hero of hers and finding them to be quite unpleasant, and her subsequent resolve to treat fame as a game that isn’t worth losing yourself over.

Dance Till We Die pays tribute to Mitchell, Joan Baez and Stevie Nicks before giving way to a cover of For Free, Mitchell’s 1970 song about being paid handsomely in a concert while an equally talented busker on the New York street plays clarinet outside for nothing. “They knew he had never been on the TV so they passed his music by,” sings Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, a guest on the track. “He was playing real good for free.” So ends an album about the price of fame, the purity of art and the cost of living, beautifully executed, thoughtfully realised. (Polydor)

 

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prettywhenimhigh    49,192

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Just now, Surf Noir said:

i can't wait for ldr8 pre-release era... i can't wait for all of the excitement & delusion...

 

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ldr will be titled "running with the wolves" KPjbWdh.gif :oprah3: desert rock masterpiece! 

 

preparing myself to discuss vinyl colors, flowers, photoshoots all over again for god knows how many months or years 

 

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DeluluKing    7,273

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3 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

every review is 80/100 and we all know it would be 100 if not For flop and Flopping Slowly :hottie:

She really has tons of unreleased tracks that are WAY better than Flopping Slowly and For flop...

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AFFA    2,115

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8 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

every review is 80/100 and we all know it would be 100 if not For flop and Flopping Slowly :hottie:


exactly :gurl:

 

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mrdrk89    33

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Anyone know what she means in WD when she says: 'Like Sun Ra, feel small'? I know Sun Ra is a musician but why is she equating him with feeling small? 

 

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