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

[West Coast 45,897]

Y'all really thought that publications like Pitchfork were going to praise Lana to infinity and beyond just because they started sucking her artistic cocc overnight with NFR uh

[Beautiful Loser 49,681]

Time for me to close my COCC timeline  and start writing on the next one lel

[Rorman Nockwell 56,968]

15 minutes ago, salvatore said:

SALVATORE'S UPDATED THOUGHTS ON YOSEMITE

yosemite- i lied above. i listened to the entire record with the incense and the breeze but yosemite i saved, i saved until the dead of night, and drove to an observatory be alone in my car outlooking the silent city sparkling on cliffside, engulfed in pines and hibernating wildflowers and i played yosemite on repeat for 45 or so minutes staring silently into the dead. this song is everything i've ever wanted. it's what kept me alive in a year i tried my best not to be and i built a fun following around it, i emailed interviewers, writers, tried to find photographers and collected every bit of information of the song i could. bought magazines that referenced yosemite, i did an entire paper around Yosemite by John Muir. I have two shirts from the 70s referencing yosemite, i've stumbled upon bottle openers from the park out in the roads where i'd walk alone at night hoping i'd be at the wrong end of a desperate persons violence for no reason other than trying to find feeling, yosemite is a lot to me and when we didn't get it in LfL i was heartbroken and decided to crave it more than ever before

 

upon her interview of MAC/VB i knew Architecture was the theme of Norman. Even though the song said to not start the new record i felt she wouldn't give up the past title track of Lust for Life that easy, or at least her muse wouldn't. The description of norman as a cocky artist with an ego that needed settling, the rejected scraps of White Mustang's music video, it all felt too coincidental and i called it that Architecture would have inspired, or be on the album (i was right), following i felt Yosemite would come to fruition here, having Lust for Life be this disjointed parent record of Norman Fucking Rockwell, i figured it'd stay similar for 'White Hot Forever'; the attempts at social commentary, the deliverance into an acoustic side to her discography, they'd be messily glued on Lust for Life and then refound in their own spaces, and now they have been. and Yosemite is the song of Chemtrails.

 

The music itself is everything i had hoped, it was brooding, optimistic, enchanting, emotional and methodical. Her rescinding the song out of vocal vulnerability in the same breath she killed malibu out of fear of transparency found a funny way into an album full of airy and broken vocals. White Dress being a thread laced through Wild at Heart in the way it is through Yosemite through Dark through For Free. The a capella she sung in 2017 obviously didn't do it justice and how anyone thought it could was laughable and that is their own fault. Her voice here is gorgeous, the song writing is beautiful, the atmosphere created in this song is so . fucking. beautiful. I knew this song was my favorite she's ever made before hearing it and I've heard it and it's still the best song she's ever created. The bridge is like a god speaking through the sky in thundering tongues and lightning flares. The imagery i suspected years ago of desert-y folk songs you'd look out over the desert and see an impending storm rings true, this is the calm inside a storm, it's an ignorant and threatened peace. i see nothing but rainless storms and sharp winds light by the invincible glow of candlelight. Yosemite is immaculate, a highlight, and a mission statement for the record. It couldn't be without Chemtrails and Chemtrails couldn't be without Yosemite. 

 

She wasn't quite at yosemite in 2017, and being able to confidently proclaim enough that she could put a song about doing things for free on a record bookended with a memoir about making art for free, and a collaborative homage to a song about lovingly observing others making art for free is quite powerful. Her never mentioning Yosemite in the lyrics is powerful

 

Yosemite being the only 1-word song on this album is powerful. 

She's so powerful, and so very realized

But what about the Spotify intern who stole 2 bars of Yosemite and put them on the end of NAWWAL? 

[AphroditeBaby 912]

Hi everyone. White Dress and Yosemite are top 2 on the album that's all

[StillOnMyMind 2,059]

5 minutes ago, Party Favor said:

whos draggin the album? twitter rats?

ATRL (not everyond, but I’m seeing kinda negative stuff).

[longtimeman 9,013]

1 minute ago, StillOnMyMind said:

ATRL (not everyond, but I’m seeing kinda negative stuff).

Haven't they basically dragged everything since BTD?

[bel air rose 11,631]

dark but just a game is a fucking hypnotizing amazing brilliant ear worm  

[sparklingclementines 145]

While I love For Free, I do think Yosemite would have been such a moment if it closed the album

[salvatore 21,769]

15 minutes ago, Pico Boulevard said:

So happy for you !!! Wow that review

 

5 minutes ago, Surf Noir said:

 

this is genuinely beautiful honestly

 

5 minutes ago, HighbytheSea said:

FRAME THIS. ITS WHAT YOU DESERVE. well done, well done. Now go, enjoy this bliss you earned. Go forth in joy. I'm so happy for you!

 

thanks besties i'm going to obliterate the nearest planet in celebration get ready to look outside but wear sunglasses xox o

4 minutes ago, RormanNockwell said:

But what about the Spotify intern who stole 2 bars of Yosemite and put them on the end of NAWWAL? 

 

rorman i'm going to murder him

[Rorman Nockwell 56,968]

 

[HighbytheSea 4,790]

Just now, salvatore said:

 

 

 

thanks besties i'm going to obliterate the nearest planet in celebration get ready to look outside but wear sunglasses xox o

 

rorman i'm going to murder him

Obliterate a planet? Someone watched Justice League today! Jk if you didn't, as you are your own superhero. I mean truly, enthralled this delivered for you. I love Yosemite,  but she's dense, Many layers, so I need time to unpack. But it's, it's beautiful 

[longtimeman 9,013]

1 minute ago, RormanNockwell said:

 

I don't know whether to smile or cry.

[longtimeman 9,013]

Sorry for spamming this thread, but I'm excited and bored, and I just noticed, for any hipsters out there, this album fits nicely on one side of a D90 cassette!

[HighbytheSea 4,790]

YOOOO Dark But Just a Game is some serious Old school Dido-esque vibes no??? Ugh this song is hot 

[Poor Stacy 12,095]

I honestly hate the Pitchfork review even if I don't mind the score. It's so fucking pretentious in the way it's written it makes me choke, lol. The faux-intellect is, like, dripping. Sylvia..............

[Beautiful Loser 49,681]

I’ve been up for two hours listening to this album now, whew time just flies by. Maybe it’s time to get up and have some breakfast now, maybe I can stream the album while taking a shower before class starts.

It’s a sunny morning you guys, not just literally but metaphorically too. We made it. Two years since the first mention of the album and four years after the first mention of Yosemite, we made it to here. And she did not disappoint, why was I all worried all this time.

[COCC 29,554]

 

Justin Who? 

[HighbytheSea 4,790]

Just now, COCC said:

 

Justin Who? 

YASSSS!!!!!!! ITS 2 AM AND IM POURING A GLASS

[littleredpartydress 49,883]

1 minute ago, Poor Stacy said:

I honestly hate the Pitchfork review even if I don't mind the score. It's so fucking pretentious in the way it's written it makes me choke, lol. 

There’s a passage in it where I swear every word was plucked from thesaurus.com it made me SCREAM

[Nobody 21,608]

1 minute ago, Poor Stacy said:

I honestly hate the Pitchfork review even if I don't mind the score. It's so fucking pretentious in the way it's written it makes me choke, lol. The faux-intellect is, like, dripping. Sylvia..............