NOW Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) Quote She’s never sung like this before. The characters and artifacts that surround these songs feel artificial, like stock props, but the music that Del Rey pulls them through splits them open, shakes them to life. She walks that tough line of high melodrama, demanding emotional investment in stories that nakedly display their own falseness. The way she sings, you start to guess that there’s real love somewhere inside all that gloss. https://consequence.net/2014/06/album-review-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ Quote Ultraviolence finds one feeling--a seedy, desperate, hyper-romanticized sense of isolation and loss--and blows it up to drive-in screen proportions, saturating the color riding the blue crest of sadness for the better part of an hour. Whether or not you want to take this particular ride will largely depend on how much stock you put in “authenticity,” your tolerance for Del Rey’s vocal tics, and your reflexive response to her lyrics. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/19449-lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ Quote But Lana the songwriter is so strong that despite shedding the if-you-want-trolling-you-got-it humor of “Cola (*****),” or any lines as quotable as “Carmen”‘s “She laughs like God/ Her mind like a diamond,” or any chorus as breezily hummable as those of “Diet Mountain Dew” or “Radio,” Ultraviolence survives yet another of Lizzy Grant’s transformations. https://www.spin.com/2014/06/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence/ Quote Ultraviolence doesn’t arrive out of a void. Lana Del Rey has been honing her craft in the public eye, with every misstep ruthlessly pilloried by people like me. Despite the onslaught, she’s emerged triumphant. Del Rey takes the well-deserved opportunity to strike back at her detractors on “Brooklyn Baby” and “Money Power Glory” (maybe my two favorite songs of the bunch). A great album, however, is the best revenge. https://web.archive.org/web/20190825191446/https://prettymuchamazing.com/reviews/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence Quote The idea for the “horror film end credits” cover for Ultraviolence [Lana Del Rey] came from my desire to introduce a little narrative that Lana and I could chase together, and to honour the muse of the project. I was imagining a sort of black-and-white, 16mm-looking nightmare. Almost in the vein of The Honeymoon Killers from 1970, or the original sixties Night of the Living Dead but with a beautiful, brooding heroine as the hero. What if Lana replaced Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion… what would that look like? For me, the whole project was made in that spirit, and I shot tons of black-and-white imagery to suggest that kind of iconography. I kept all my colour imagery for the more fairy tale- like themes. Dorothy/Wizard of Oz vibes, but with Dorothy smoking a cigarette in a bed of hydrangea. With that particular album [Ultraviolence], I think the obvious thing to have done would’ve been to present Lana in some violent, over-the-top artwork to complement the title, but I think the cover would not have dated well had we gone too on the nose with it. https://www.exitmagazine.co.uk/photography/neil-krug-figures-landscapes Edited June 13, 2022 by NOW
TouchinFree Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Oh wow 8 years since she released her BEST album already?
dream8ker Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 One of the few perfect albums for me. Up there with Dido’s No Angel and Tame Impala’s Currents, the kind of albums that create a world of their own an invite you inside
Everyperfectsummer Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Her best album Spoiler if NFR didn't exist
allforyou Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Her 2nd best album Cruel World, Shades of Blue and West Coast remain some of her best songs
Bartender Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 one of few albums to capture the feeling of darkness so vividly. truly a masterpiece
lovedaddy Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 her best album Ultraviolence and her best single West Coast
ConceptD Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Honestly a masterpiece. There’s only one skip on the album and the entire aesthetic around the era was so beautiful.
ahauntingnearu Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 The chokehold this album / era had on me is unreal... I absolutely keep this in my top 3 along with HM and NFR! She did THAT
Taylor fanboy Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 UV x HM x NFR! trinity Put Is This Happiness on Spotify challenge
ahauntingnearu Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 1 minute ago, Taylor fanboy said: UV x HM x NFR! trinity Put Is This Happiness on Spotify challenge Oh the taste my sweet betsy
Feanor Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Still her 2nd best album to date The way people used to drag it when it came out, because it wasn't as commercial-sounding a BTD.
DuffStan Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 So many memories attached to this album... to this day still
Save My Life Posted June 13, 2022 Posted June 13, 2022 Still bump this album constantly I'll never forget ATRL going into meltdown mode
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