Blue Banisters - Pre-Release Thread: OUT October 22nd, 2021

[Yosemite 23,790]

Well, NME will come through with their 100/100, as per usual, so... 

[prettywhenimhigh 49,453]

oh god I'm sensing a score around 70 this time idk 

[Super Movie 51,881]

I've had a feeling for a long time that the reviews for this album would be a mess. It's a risky album in the sense that it's not necessarily as accessible as some of Lana's other, more popular albums. To me, it's a similar situation to releasing Ultraviolence after Born To Die. Having NFR be Lana's most acclaimed work, and then having it followed by a more mellow album and then after an album where she plays with her vocals (and other things) quite a bit, it can be a shock to a reviewer who's used to the Lana they met in 2019 and that Lana only. 

[DCooper 37,210]

Not a bad review, but that person clearly should have spent more time absorbing the album because some of those criticisms are just not it...

 

 

[Yosemite 23,790]

This is all that trio's fault- and I'm talking abt NOTG/LL/CB, not the interlude 

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

ok now i fully know these reviews are going to scare me to death

[Jeanne Dielman 5,996]

The review read mostly (very) positive until they said that the last couple of songs are too slow and kinda dragged Sweet Carolina's lyrics. Also LOL at the terrible criticism that both Lana and Taylor should have combined COCC+BB / Folklore+Evermore into one project because they're basically just nice background music for the pandemic. 

[Sparkle 8]

Did the 320kbps leak?

[LifeOnMars 7,933]

4 minutes ago, littleredpartydress said:

Mess

 

They always do 2 reviews, the premature evaluation and the official review but this is fairly mixed and will probably mean they will give the album a 5 or 6  

What did they give Chemtrails? Their review for that album was harsher. 

[MagicalTrancePotion 1,675]

15 minutes ago, rightofjupiter said:

first review! https://www.stereogum.com/2164650/lana-del-rey-blue-banisters-album-review/reviews/premature-evaluation/

I thought they were going to praise it until I got towards the end of the article.

[Umaniac 1,917]

At this point the banisters were too many colors for me to do understand the metaphor 

[DCooper 37,210]

They also called Clay her fiancé in the review lol  Like, do your research first, it's not that hard.

 

Overall they did say a lot of really positive things about her and the album though 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,496]

Bah reviews are one thing. 
to me, this album is in her top 2, maybe as good as Norman (a couple of months will tell me). I do agree though that it’s the sister album to Chemtrails. But other than that, I don’t completely agree with many points. 
one thing stands out on Bb: she plays with her voice so much more and on so many songs. 

[That Venice Bitch 28,730]

I hope reviews dwell more on the experimental vocal performances on Black Bathing Suit, Living Legend, and Dealer

[prettywhenimhigh 49,453]

3 minutes ago, MagicalTrancePotion said:

I thought they were going to praise it until I got towards the end of the article.

 

same my reaction was literally 

 

 

[rightofjupiter 16,741]

3 minutes ago, DCooper said:

They also called Clay her fiancé in the review lol  Like, do your research first, it's not that hard.

 

Overall they did say a lot of really positive things about her and the album though 

 

yeah i kind of want a real lana-head to review this record cuz it's such an anomaly in many ways, what with the unreleaseds etc, wonder what promo info her label is sending out about it and if they'll mention that

[Glitter Boy 16,628]

"She released Chemtrails Over the Country Club in May, a softer and smaller album that pressed on the themes of Norman Fucking Rockwell! with a gentler touch. She paid homage to a decaying country, with tremors of folksy freedom. Not six months later, she’s back with another record, one that arrived to many listeners ahead of even Lana’s breakneck schedule via a sometimes grainy leak. Blue Banisters is Lana’s pandemic record, a sisterly companion to Chemtrails."

 

Er... we're off to a great start! Chemtrails was released in March, and Blue Banisters comes SEVEN months later  

Lemme keep reading.

[Three White Butterflies 27,492]

i enjoyed reading the review and really liked this line:

 

In some ways Banisters feels like the purest distillation of the Lana Del Rey project, the grandeur and grasping of her earlier albums fused with her more recent music’s romance and scope. The twinkling closing track “Sweet Carolina” reads like a parody of Lana lyrics, a blast of found poetry for a broken era: “You name your babe Lilac Heaven/ After your iPhone 11/ ‘Crypto forever,’ screams your stupid boyfriend/ Fuck you, Kevin.” Only Lana could make this work.

 

only tea was spilled here

[Flowerbomb 65,596]

If the reviews are bad enough then it'll make Lana angry and then she'll make UV 2.0 WE WON!!!!! 

[whitelungswhitepalms 10,200]

My sensitive ass is gonna cry at the reviews if they treat the unreleased tracks badly PLEASEEEEEE THEY’RE SO IMPORTANT TO ME