Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[rabbit 4,870]

Streamed Chemtrails while I slept, woke up to the sweet sounds of White Dress  

 

Getting ready to head up to Target and pick up a vinyl and CD :,) Happy release day!   Cannot get over this record!! 

[LanaHead 15]

Only listened to about 75% of the album on the morning walk with a cigarette and the 6 AM sunrise, making sure I am in top mental shape (cigarette + wine + adderall) on my first few listens of the album. But so far as I can tell it is giving NFR a run for it's money....

[bluefiona 8,050]

7 minutes ago, SouthInGuy said:

Breaking Up Slowly wasn't on my fave list at first but it is definitely growing on me. 

Nikki is the voice and highlight of that song.

It's the only song that didn't put me to sleep.

Needless to say, just heard the album. I don't like it at all. I find it all boring.

It will probably take me a lot of listens to get into it like I had to do with Honeymoon.

She's #1 worldwide. Her racist rants didn't hurt her at all. She's doing better then NFR. lol

 

[WildMustang 14,725]

Breaking Up Slowly is one of her best collabs

[velvetcrowbcr 593]

this record feels like she's finally coming full circle. i feel like this record is her truest form and hopefully will break away that image of "daddy's coke princess" many younger fans seem to have. 

[prettywhenimhigh 48,261]

good morning guys!!!!! I'm so happy with this album, listened to it again before falling asleep in the pitch black darkness of my bedroom and I felt like was lost in space but lana was there with me it was soooo emotional

thank you for those who told me to get the alt cover CD 

[Pink Champagne 8,872]

I remember watching

How green was my valley

Then I was thinking

How deep was the canyon that you came from?

Television static

Was quite overwhelming.

Was it because of the cabin

and the candles in the wind?

[Lustformoney 40,354]

me on Yosemite bridge

[#glimmeringdarling 4,545]

Yeah I must say Breaking Up Slowly actually seems like her most authentic collaboration since pre LFL

[Pink Champagne 8,872]

Just now, Lustformoney said:

me on Yosemite bridge

we posted about it at the same time 

[DLT 7,472]

14 minutes ago, velvetcrowbcr said:

this record feels like she's finally coming full circle. i feel like this record is her truest form and hopefully will break away that image of "daddy's coke princess" many younger fans seem to have. 

I def agree it is a full circle moment for her. I love the truest form comment too because that is exactly how I feel.

 

If someone were to ask who is Lana Del Rey, I would say this album.

 

This is Lana, this her at her realest, this is her at her most vulnerable. I don't know, it is really nice to see her finding herself again.

[BoardingSchool 2,618]

This is her grown-up "Sirens." Chill, meditative, slow-burn.

 

For me, TJF is the only one I would listen to as a standalone "single." The album overall is way more country than I would usually like, BUT I think it is the absolute perfect album to sing along to for a long road trip across open spaces...especially at night. For me, she's channeling the artists she loves so much that if you told me this was a cover album of lost songs from Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, etc, I would 100% believe you. However, I know it's just a side of her we haven't seen before...earnest, romantic, mature. I see myself listening to it in the car a lot.

 

P.S. Yosemite made me cry, but that might be because I thought we'd never get it?

[Lustformoney 40,354]

Just now, fine china said:

we posted about it at the same time 

great minds

[Beautiful Loser 45,647]

I keep thinking how Not all who wander sounds like an unreleased song we would find out five years after it got recorded. I'm so grateful it's on this album.

[#glimmeringdarling 4,545]

I am definitely listening to Yosemite tripping balls on shrooms.. I know it’s gonna HIT. My mind will be churning butter

[Ocean Boulevard 38,794]

The beat drop in Dark Bust Just Game 

[prettywhenimhigh 48,261]

this album is so experimental and different from everything she has done, I can see some elements of NFR but really it is not like NFR at all, she's such a genius 

[Vertimus 8,911]

8 minutes ago, fine china said:

I remember watching

How green was my valley

Then I was thinking

How deep was the canyon that you came from?

Television static

Was quite overwhelming.

Was it because of the cabin

and the candles in the wind?

 

That's the most intense part of the album, right up there with, or superior to, some other tense moments in LDR tracks, like 'Ultraviolence,' 'Old Money,' 'Heroin' and others. 

[Terrence Loves Me 71,483]

Don't drag me but Wild at Heart, Dark But Just a Game and Yosemite aren't blowing me away like some of you describe, i'm trying but i'm still a little meh with them. Wild at Heart has no punch for me, the chorus starts and it still sounds like the verse. I'm not saying these songs suck but they're taking a while to grow on me. Hopefully they will soon.

It's hard to top songs like White Dress, Chemtrails and Not All Who Wonder Are Lost though so i'll give them time. 

Heroin seemed to be an instant fan favourite when LFL dropped as well but i didn't like it and now i do, Yosemite better come around 

[Vertimus 8,911]

40 minutes ago, WildMustang said:

Based on the live version , I expected For Free to be much better. Their voices don't blend, Lana sounds uninteresting , Weyes sounds too loud idk , still cute tho 

 

I agree. A straight reading of the song by Lana alone would have been preferable, or another arrangement. It's not a happy song, but LDR made it somewhat celebratory. I'm not sure it works.