What is Lana's best produced album?

[DeadAgainst 1,519]

AKA's production sucks guys

 

Literally every demo track sounds better than the glossy, overproduced, overcompressed final version

[Auto-Tuned Loon 650]

BTD for me is overproduced, too much "loon"

 

  

[CatchTheBreeze 1,682]

  

 

Sorry, no offense!

[baddisease 18,360]

I voted Ulraviolence.

 

My rationale is that with Ultraviolence, unlike her other records, she had someone to challenge her vision and push her music forward. Her need for Yes Men to nod their heads hurts her music. Born To Die and Paradise are good, despite the Yes Men, but Honeymoon and Lust For Life are hurt by it.

[Valentino 887]

AKA has the most interesting and unique production. Sometimes it's a miss (Brite Lites) but I love Raise Me Up, Queen of the Gas Station, Kill Kill. Sometimes it doesn't sound high quality, which hurts it.

 

Born To Die has some great production but also some very questionable choices. National Anthem and Dark Paradise are two songs sacrificed for cohesiveness. The demos are so much better and more alive. Now that we have four/ five full albums out and we're I think a lot of the songs suffer from the production choices.

 

Paradise is really nice (Cola is so lushhhh) but also more boring than BTD.

 

I will never understand UV's reputation in this fanbase, lol. I don't like lofi so maybe that's why.

The first 5 songs of the album are solid (but the "strings " on UV are so fake and that always bothers me), with West Coast having a heavenly sound, but the second half really lags. Like I have no comment on MPG or FMWUTTT. My main problem is Lana drenching her voice (and everything?) in reverb. It's so muddy sounding. I've been told this isn't an issue on the vinyl.

 

Honeymoon is like Paradise I guess. But better? I love the production on MTWBT for example. But then there's stuff like GKIT where its just indiscriminate reverb. The whole thing is very consistent sounding at least.

 

Lust for Life is probably her most diverse offering since AKA, which is good and bad. She's divided it pretty neatly into pre and post Coachella, so each "side" is internally consistent. Love and Lust for Life don't fit in at all, imo. They're so slick sounding when the rest of the record is not. It's very odd. I'm really bothered you can hear hiss when Lana starts singing on Heroin. Like seriously? I know you like to sing at a near whisper but that noise drives me crazy.

 

I have a lot of thoughts but I'm on mobile so I'm just gonna nominate AKA for diversity AND consistency.

[Jord 3,481]

I think "Ultraviolence" is really well-produced. "Born to Die" would be my option but I actually think they went a little over with it.

[godsmonster 14,326]

Honeymoon has the most beautiful production, instrumental wise. It's so cinematic, I can picture the whole album instrumentals as a movie soundtrack.

Title track? Hauntingly beautiful.

the strings/synths on the bridge of Religion? GORGEOUS (the 4:15 mark)

Swan Song? So dreamlike

[MoonAgain 872]

honestly there's amazingly produced songs on each album. but for overall consistent quality, ultra

[clementines 9,956]

Honeymoon and Paradise 100%

[Off To The Races 2010 demo pls 19,335]

Paradise has the best production

[Gone user 5,374]

Paradise isn't my favorite album but it has some of her best production

[poetic jess 2,340]

Ultraviolence and Paradise

[Fingertips 72,054]

Paradise and Honeymoon

[Dark Angel 205,803]

Born To Die, Ultraviolence is a close second.

[Bootynugget 2,926]

All the people voting BTD 

[PerwinkleDreams 6,800]

I voted for AKA, sue me!