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Almost gave us a three because it’s not that bad but it’s hard to appreciate this when you know there’s better Lana songs that sounds very similar. The sound and messages are similar to other albums by her, that are better
This cannot be the only Lana album on here.
The longer I listened the less I enjoyed this. I found the soporific pace dull, though I can imagine for other people it might feel mellow. I was surprised by how much crossover there is between her music and Taylor Swift’s. I enjoyed Tulsa Jesus Freak but Not All Who Wander are Lost, and Yosemite were where they lost me.
The first half of this album is phenomenal, top-tier Lana. It’s a shame the second half is so bland and forgettable!
Ok
So much better than I had anticipated ❤️ "Dark But Just A Game" 🤍🤍🤍
Very interesting choice of album for the list, coz it feels like a sequel to NFR. It's a 4.5, but I'll round it up to a 5, coz I'm sure I would give it a 5 if I had no context. Love almost all these songs, my favourite is Yosemite or Wild at Heart (and weird on top) but NFR is better x. Lovely cover of For Free at the end which is one of my favourite Joni songs xx Question for the culture: why is Ladies of the Canyon not on this list, when 2 of the songs on that album have been featured as covers so far? (And it has Big Yellow Taxi on) Clownery really x
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3.5
No me gustó
I liked it. It was a mood.
dont really fw lana anymore
Beautiful sing and nice songs some too slow and sad for main playlist but all made it into old playlist
i already had all the songs added before this so easy 5 star
A bit baffled by this entry; Lana Del Rey has made some fine albums, including the 2019 masterpiece 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!'. This one, however, certainly isn't universally beloved among fans. There's a lot of great stuff on here though and I do think its underrated, including White Dress, Chemtrails, and Dark But Just a Game, but admittedly a lot of the other songs end up sounding the same, and she's put out better albums both before and since this. What I would give for an album closer stylistically to that 30 second bridge at the end of "Dance Till We Die", though...
A high 3/low 4 for me. I know Lana as more of a pop star so this dialled back album with more low key singer songwriter qualities was a nice surprise to me. The title song was my favourite I think, even though it has a lot of Spotify streams, I hadn’t heard it before
This is a very pleasant-sounding album, but almost too much so. It's pretty even all across its runtime, it's hard to identify a high or low point or even anything that I feel very strongly about. "For Free" is definitely a Joni Mitchell song, and I can't help but feel a little disappointed that the rest of the album doesn't have anything else that feels quite as unique as this. This album seems like something that probably felt a bit more interesting or timely during the pandemic, but a half decade out it doesn't hold up quite as well. Favorite track: let's go with "Tulsa Jesus Freak"
Not terrible but absolutely not for me
Lyrics are interesting, but the music and vocals bore me. 2 stars or D+.
ooh something modern first impression is that she's singing well outside here range apparently is intentional rest of the album sounds like lana del rey is it better than born to die tho not really 💥yosemite
Slow, very pretty. This was my first time listening to Lana Del Rey intentionally and I can say I enjoyed it. I think the album was a bit too long, but her voice was very pretty and I like the harmonies and country twang going on.
If the album started off a little stronger this would been a five for me. Great heartfelt indie pop
Wanted to give this the old college try but it didn’t really land for me overall. Wild at Heart and For Free w/ Weyes Blood were standout tracks, but otherwise it felt very meandering and one-note. I found the vocal mixing pretty irritating at times, especially the first track. 2.5 for the Weyes Blood feature
I’m not sure I’ve ever actually listened to Lana Del Rey before and while not bad, not really my cup of tea either
Album #268 Lana Del Ray: Chemtrails Over The Country Club So I’ve never actually listened to a Lana Del Ray album before; in fact, I’m not confident I could say I’ve ever even heard a song by her, but I am aware of her reputation as being one of the better modern-day singer-songwriters, so I was definitely intrigued as to how this would sound. From what I gather, though, this isn’t one of her better records, so I’ll keep that in mind and not let this album affect my opinions of her too harshly, but yeah, this wasn’t anything special. The first track immediately put me off; her vocals are airy, and she sounds like she's grasping for life, and the lyrics are pretty comical at times, as is her delivery. Unfortunately, those complaints never really wavered for me as the album progressed; her vocals were uninspiring, and the lyrics were tacky; I’ve never been a fan of postmodern meta lyricists; I just find that those artists tend to age the worst since they are pigeonholing themselves to one era; I much prefer artists who speak abstractly in universal themes that last the test of time. So yeah, not for me, just felt like music made for upper-middle-class Gen Z girls who are more worried about the aesthetic of the music they listen to rather than how it actually makes them feel. Best Songs: Yosemite, Chemtrails Over The Country Club Worst Song: Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost Score Out Of 10: 5
The singer's twee whisper was so annoying I let some flies and mosquitos in the house just to cheer myself up. Considered violence at one point. Couldn't get all the way through.
unbelievable stuff
Pleasant enough. A bit melanchoic for me but nothing offensive.
Listening to White Stripes when they were white-hot 3.5
I could see enjoying this album more if I was a sad rich white woman. I am only one of those things. So... 3 stars. I didn't have to turn it off, but I wouldn't listen to it by choice.
2021 was the year I started actively searching for new music again and this was one of the big albums that came up early in that year and she was completely new to me at that point. I enjoyed it at the time and listened to it several times but it kinda fell away and I haven't listened to it since then. The couple of albums she's released since this didn't really resonate either. Listening back now I find it to be an album with a few great songs and the rest that I could take or leave. Therefore, I'm unlikely to revisit aas a whole but would happily cherry pick the good stuff.
Breathy music for people who think the earth is flat.
this was goood also ive heard ppl say taylor is trying to be lana lately but i havent listened to her music before and i see it now omggg ttpd literally ldr nachos
I think this is a great album, her voice is just mesmerizing, and complemented with the melodies. The title song is out of this world. However - I believe she has 2 or 3 better albums, and it is shame that they are not on 1001.
The voice, it's intoxicating. Truly beautiful album. The arrangements and harmonies at times just take over you. Dark But Just A Game sealed it for me.
Favorite songs: Chemtrails over the Country Club, Let Me Love You Like a Woman, For Free
Really begrudged having to listen to this because I'm not a LDR fan. Still not really a fan, it was a bit wishy washy for my liking but some okay songs on here
S tier forEVER <333
This was much better then I thought it was going to be. Wasn't the typical pop sound of the Lana Del Ray I've heard before. This was a much more bluesy and folk style that just sounded so much better.
Lana’s got a modern folk album with a tinge of country here, and some threads of Joni, Joan, and reminiscing of middle America and a more innocent time. Let Me Love You Like A Woman is the top song as her vocals are in a lower key than usual. Good coffee house listen. (3.3*s) I’ll go e Lana live if she’s playing at a coffee shop in Marina Del Rey.
Been wondering about this Lana lady. Her name has popped up a lot and I've heard good things. After listening to this album, what's good? Way too soft and couldn't stand her whisper singing. She barely ekes a note out on the opening track. Typical themes of love loss and pining for pre-fame times that were simpler. Now that I've heard Del Rey, nothing new and exciting to see here...drop this record in the dollar bin. Go back to serving in your white dress at the country club. 1.13 stars for breathing in the chemtrails.
I've been trying to figure out what it is that people get from Lana Del Rey's music. I've had friends and colleagues tell me she is great yet every time I listen to anything by her I find it sappy, boring and pretty lame. It all feels like some empty melodrama from some 40-year old teenage girl. Call it modern folk, call it Americana, call it whatever and I'm still pretty underwhelmed. She bugs me even though there isn't really any reason she should. LDR has a very successful ongoing career and plenty of fans so she is obviously doing something right, I just haven't been able to get behind any of it so far. Chemtrails Over The Country Club was more of the same lifeless faire that I get from her every time I run into an LDR song. Another big nothingburger. At least she did the latest James Bond First Light song which I enjoy so she'll always have that going for her. Can't vouch for anything else from her catalog though personally. 1.52 stars
NFR should be on the list instead of this. That album is a 4.5. This one is a solid 3.5/5. The opener is great with the different vocal inflection. The features fit in nicely as well.
Veldig behagelig melankolsk, men jeg er nok større fan av tidlig Lana. Føles veldig hardt å gi 3 stjerner, men konkurransen er hard her.
1. drezz - 1 2. club - 2 3. tulza - 2 4. uuoman - 2 5. uuild - 2 6. game - 2 7. lozt - 3 8. yozemite - 3 9. zlouuly - 2 10. dance - 2 11. free - 2
Overall it's a bit slow, but Lana has a great voice which helps this not feel like a drag.
2.18
baladinhas lentas pop.
Niet de grootste Lana fan, dus ook geen groot fan van een van haar mindere albums. Toch is het album zelf best decent met hier en daar wat uitschieters, maar verder vooral fine
Altijd al een giga soft spot voor Lana, maar dit staat niet eens in de top 5 Lana albums. Belachelijke keuze.
Did not listen. I can't stand Lana del Rey.
Bien mais c’est bon on a compris
Always skeptical over Lana del rey as I find some of her stuff abit slow and boring but this was pretty good if you're in the mood for it
The fact that THIS is the Lana album that made it onto this list is incredibly bizarre. I’ve met fans who forget this record even exists. That said, “Chemtrails…” is still a solid Lana album, but it definitely lacks some of her singular magic. I enjoy the fact that these songs flip her usual “sad-girl” formula on its head, maintaining her characteristically languid production while focusing more on the pros and cons of finally achieving contentment. In practice, though, nearly every song ends up a slow-moving ballad with limited emotional impact. I truly love Lana, but this album would not even be in the Top 5 of what I would choose to represent her discography. Fav Tracks: White Dress, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Wild at Heart, Not All Who Wander Are Lost, Dancing Till We Die Least Fav: Breaking Up Slowly Score: 6
Honestamente? Não desgostei não. A voz dela é bonita e tem umas músicas legais. Sem opiniões fortes
Honestly this surprised me
They say those chemtrails are the government trying to control the weather. This album feels like the album that a person that thinks that would love. I don't know if I think that
*listened before the project* Hey…why this one is included? Can be BTD, can be NFR, but COTCC? I don’t really think so.
Lana Del Rey’s deal is so tiring
Wow. Beautiful.
Thought I was going to be completely taken a minute in to the opening track. What follows is often uninspiring, boring, and corny. RYM: N Saved a song: N
Mæ før æ begynte å høre på det her: Det e jo i og for sæ litt rart at æ aldri har hørt på Lana Del Rey før? Mæ etter noen sanger: … nei, det e det ikke.
So I’m pretty sure the last iteration of this list was made before 2023, but you should seriously replace listening to this album for “Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”. It is a sprawling, beautifully performed album where Lana is at her absolute best, singing songs about growing old and being in love — still with her signature despondent-yet-powerful vocal delivery. As for Chemtrails? It kinda feels like a beta test for Ocean Blvd. Melodies aren’t as sticky, Lana doesn’t concern herself with reaching as many emotional highs and lows. She’s leaning into a tenderness that she developed in the late 2010’s, but doesn’t totally stick the landing. She sits in a certain register for the entirety of Chemtrails; she’s happy to be here, but not willing to dig too deep or find her next gear. You have to wait until “Wild At Heart” to hear her switch up her tambor, and by that point shes lulled you into such a relaxed state that her energy just sounds out of place. I was listening to an Eartheater record the other day and thought to myself how many people Lana has influenced with her airy delivery. I wish Chemtrails had more than that airy delivery, but every song sounds like it’s just short of a great melody. I really like how stark “Yosemite” is. Let’s say 3/5
I liked 2 songs on this album: Breaking up Slowly(duet with Nikki Lane) Not all who wander are lost The album as a whole is pretty predictable and kind of pretentious
Blech. I thought I hated Lana Del Rey’s music, and then people whose taste I trust pointed me to songs they thought I’d like. I hated all of them, except for “A&W” (which is heartbreaking and terrifying) and “Mariners Apartment Complex” (great melody, interesting lyrics). Neither is on this album. I went into “Chemtrails over the Country Club” hoping to find something to like, as I did with those two songs. But, nope, this album is especially hateable. There is not a single hummable melody. Spotify says in its song notes that Lana and Jack Antonoff decided to leave in the sounds of her vape to preserve the “rawness of the moment”. Ugh. That fact is about as ridiculous and pretentious as the album as a whole.
Ik ken ons Lana natuurlijk van het nummer 'Videogames'. Ik weet dat ze daarna al die tijd nog gewoon actief en populair is geweest, maar ik heb sinds die tijd van haar muziek denk ik helemaal niks meer meegekregen. Waar ze op Videogames nog een beetje zong als een soort jaren '50 zangeres, met persoonlijkheid, is ze inmiddels overgestapt op hijgen met een hoog stemmetje. Althans, bij een aantal tracks op dit album. Bij 'Let Me Love You Like a Woman' klinkt ze wat meer zoals ik vooraf had verwacht. Dit zal uiteraard aanslaan bij een hele grote groep worstelende meiden van 15 die zich niet begrepen voelen en daar is niks mis mee. Ik hoop alleen maar dat die meiden niet de behoefte voelen om dezelfde lippen te nemen als hun idool, maar dat is weer een andere dicussie. Een mix van folk en chamberpop. Ik vind het niet per se slecht of stom, sterker nog het klinkt over het algemeen wel mooi, maar ik vind het ook niet erg als ik na drie kwartier iets anders mag gaan draaien. 'Dark But Just a Game' sprong er positief bovenuit voor mij, daar gebeurde eindelijk wat anders dan bij de rest van de tracks. Gewoon 3 sterren voor ons Laan.
The first and maybe biggest problem here is that I don't like her vocal performance on most of the tracks on this album. Generally, it's weak and wispy, like a dissipated cloud. And the music is just barely there. There are a few artists that I like despite employing a similar minimalistic approach, but here it just doesn't do much for me. The guitar parts are surprisingly nice when you can pick them out, shimmering and slinking along behind the mouthful of cotton gauze that is the rest of the music. In contrast to the guitars, the piano just plods along without the tiniest hint of musicality. It's much better when she uses something closer to her full voice, like on "Let Me Love You Like a Woman," "Dance Till We Die," and "For Free." Just to show that I am a self-contradicting, complex character, I will say that I do like "Yosemite" which has more of a delicate, airy feel. Since there's not much appealing to the music or the vocals, I was thinking maybe the lyrics are good. Listening to the first song I was wondering why she has to say "Down at the Men in Music Business Conference" so many times. It doesn't flow well. But then I thought, maybe that's the point? Unfortunately, that might be the peak lyrically. A lot of the lyrics are like the music, evocative at times but mostly insubstantial, at worst awkward and lazy. From the title track: "Drag racing my little red sports car I'm not unhinged or unhappy, I'm just wild" "Under the chemtrails over the country club, yeah You're born in December and I'm born in June" I guess being wild is her theme song. References to astrology, the archetype of feeling meaningful despite not having any meaning at all. Here's anther track, "Wild at Heart": "I left Calabasas, escaped all the ashes, ran into the dark And it made me wild, wild, wild at heart The cameras have flashes, they cause the car crashes But I'm not a star If you love me, you'll love me 'Cause I'm wild, wild at heart If they love me, they'll love me 'Cause I'm wild, wild at heart" When the album finished, another song came on Spotify: "I get wild on you, baby I get wild and fuckin' crazy like you never knew, knew, knew I get wild on you, baby I get wild and fuckin' crazy like the color blue, ooh-ooh" The lyrics range from impressionistic to overly concrete. Sometimes there are a lot specific details, quotes from other songs, and various cultural references that don't add anything in particular to the overall meaning of the song. They refer to things without saying anything about them. "Summer, sizzling Listening to jazz out on the lawn Listеning to White Stripes when thеy were white-hot Listening to rock all day long" The first part is obviously a reference to Joni Mitchell's "The Hissing of Summer Lawns," an obvious influence, but any specificity gets lost when jumbled in with the other lines. I think the main point of this song is her wondering if maybe she was better off when she was young and naïve, but the way it is put together is awkward and lazy. I mean, I guess "listening to rock all day long" is something you might do when you are young and naïve, but come on... While "listening to jazz" is something someone might say because they don't know jazz so it's all just "jazz," listening to rock is something no one would say unless they are older than a baby boomer or younger than 5. It sounds stupid coming from the mouth of the narrator of this song about the music business! "Yosemite" also plays on this theme of naivete: "Seasons may change But we won't change Isn't it sweet how we know that already?" Obviously, we aren't meant to take that at face value. But instead of making it tempting to believe, to have some tension between the naivete and cynicism before pulling the rug out from under us, she immediately makes the narrator sound stupid. "Not All Who Wander" is just a bumper sticker followed by a bunch more clichés. This (and the astrology from a philosophy graduate who specialized in metaphysics) makes me start to wonder if there's not a deeper layer of cynicism behind these songs. Like she comes up with a basic concept for a song, free associates a bunch of words, puts the words into lines without considering how the lines work together, then calls it done because she cares that little about it. "It's beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me I'm not bored or unhappy, I'm still so strange and wild" I've enjoyed plenty of music with stupid lyrics, but usually the lyrics were fun to sing or shout along with because the music was fun. That's not the case here. I'm giving this album a 2 because I think the music deserves a 2. She has a good voice and can sing if she tries. I don't usually pay a lot of attention to lyrics unless they are particularly good or particularly bad. If I hadn't paid so much attention to the lyrics to write this review, they wouldn't have bothered me. Essential listen: no Desert island disc: no
I love the title track but I struggle to stay interested in the rest. Why is this on here if it's her worst album?
I like her. I bet some of her other albums are great. 3.5
Was alright I guess
This soft, breathy vocal thing does not work for me.
My prediction that this would be the kind of bland vocal pop music that I don’t usually like wasn’t completely off base. But some of it turned out to be less conventionally melodic and more interesting than usual for this genre, with some of the lyrics complex enough to make me want to look them up later on. I doubt I’ll return to this, but I’m glad to have improved my unfounded previous opinion of her work. Favorite track: White Dress, which was quite poignant while not being cloying, and had a great video.
“Sometimes this ranch feels like my only friend,” Lana Del Rey sings on “Dance Till We Die,” and thereby gives the whole game away. Del Rey is as much a creature of Los Angeles as Anthony Kiedis is - a walking, singing, disfigured-face-making monument to California, The Idea. Her music is the siren song of a thousand Raymond Chandler femme fatales - the Woman in Trouble, simultaneously harried by and drawn to predatory men (“White Dress”). And like a Chandler character, her instinct is to get out of town and wait for things to blow over - to decamp to Tulsa or Lincoln or Yosemite, preferably with some hard-bitten yet gold-hearted Philip Marlowe type to watch over her. And of course, that is at least partially what she has literally done in her personal life, meaning the life of Elizabeth Woolridge Grant the human being (and didn’t all the women in those Chandler stories have assumed names too?). So why do I find myself doubting her ability to live without glitz and glamour? Part of it is because she’s just damn talented, and it would seem an unbelievable waste for that talent to languish in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana or wherever the hell she’s living now. This isn’t her best work but it would be a lot of pop chanteuses’ best work. But also there’s the whole problem of knowing what kind of story we’re in, which means nothing the femme fatale says can be taken at face value. On the aforementioned “Dance Till We Die” Del Rey name checks Joni, Joan, Stevie, and Courtney, all of whom she’s had some sort of performance or other connection with, before going on to claim she’s burdened by the weight of fame; you know that because she sings, “burdened by the weight of fame.” It’s all a bit tidy - suspiciously so, like the false denouement in a Marlowe story. Which is probably why, the louder Del Rey’s protests get, the more likely it seems that she won’t be able to stay away for the third act. No wonder she name-checks David Lynch’s Wild at Heart here - a film about star-crossed lovers fleeing to California. Deep down she knows that changing her location isn’t going to change what’s really going on with her - the anomie that hangs on the edge of these tracks like a cloud, billowing up to swallow her whenever she lets it. Wherever she goes, there she is.
Beetje eentonig, beetje kabbelend, beetje saai
t is geen nfr, of born to die, of ultraviolence, of dyktatuob, of lust for life, maar goed. 3.5/5
This is a quieter album by Lana Del Rey, but I don't understand why it is often referred to as her worst album, as I believe it is better than "Lust for Life" and maybe even "Honeymoon." "Chemtrails..." is a quieter album and more nuanced, but it also feels more mature, and I think it has several amazing songs and many other very good ones. I don't think it is her best, but I'd put it as second tier, above at least a couple of her other releases, if not more.
Americana, folk, country folk.
606 albums in, and I finally got something from this decade. That's not too surprising considering there are only five albums from the 2020s currently on the list, but still, after cruising through everything by The Who, Black Sabbath, Kanye, and Jimi Hendrix, I'm surprised it took this long to finally get something more recent. I've always thought that Lana Del Rey was pretty talented even if I've never actively listened to her. She definitely has some classic albums so I'm not sure why they picked this one. "Norman Fucking Rockwell!" would've been a much better choice or even "Ultraviolence". This is a good album if you're already a fan of Lana I'm sure, but it doesn't do anything too exciting if your'e not. I do think it's cool that Weyes Blood is technically on this list through this record. Favorite track: Wild At Heart
I really want to like LDR, but I am not sure this was the album to get me there. Maybe I’ll listen others.
No, fuck ts, al the songs felt the same, her voice sucks, there are so many other albums from 2021 or before that I should hear before I die,
Ta bueno pero no banco que haya un album de 2021. Tendría q ser lo más revolucionario de mundo.
Meh. Apparently I’m not enough of a depressed Gen Zer for this to appeal to me.
You don't really need to listen to this before you die. I love me some Lana. She's has a beautiful voice and tells a great story. However, there are better Lana albums than this.
I am going to assume that my lack of knowledge of everything that came before this album is a big part of the problem here for me. I have been aware of her career from reasonably early on. I can figure out the kind of things that I have been buying that has resulted in me being bombarded with algorithmic recommendations of her albums. I’m not sure what it has been that has stopped me from exploring her work, but it’s been quite instinctual and honestly, more often than not, that has been a reliable barometer. The thing is though, whatever I had assumed that Lana Del Rey would sound like (and the few encounters I’ve had with her music over the years has done nothing to dissuade me of that assumption) this album is different. I was expecting a combination of Sharon Van Etten, Waxahatchee, Weyes Blood, Julien Baker (and other sad indie girls), plus maybe a touch of Joanna Newsom. That might be happening on earlier LDR albums, but today, listening to ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’ I heard a singer/songwriter halfway between Angel Olsen and a beatless Lady Gaga but a lot less engaging than either. Fans, I expect, would be appalled by that, but they should be more appalled that I was simply bored. You could say I just don’t get it, but I get and enjoy all the other names I’ve mentioned. It probably makes more sense in the context of her other albums, and if you’ve “grown with her”, but I have to react to what I’ve heard and this album did little for me. I tried making it work by focusing on the lyrics, but they sounded like someone who believes everyone should be hanging off her every word because it’s all so profound. I was not convinced. I could go back and start at the beginning, educate myself and maybe enjoy this album more after trawling through 5 or 6 other albums, but I’m not that arsed so I’ll just go back to awaiting the next Weyes Blood album.
The soporific virtues of Hollywood sadcore. If you like this sort of thing then this is exactly the sort of thing you’ll like.
Quite the find. Could see how some may find the breathy, fit-as-many-words-into-a-single-line style might grate. But I didn’t know this (or her, really) at all, and liked the moody, late night feel.
I got a heavy feeling as the third track started that this was going to be long, samey listen. But then Dark But Just A Game threw something interesting and the closing two tracks where both strong.
An undeserved spot on the list. Boring. Not bad but just samey and boring. If you like that kind of thing then carry on but really? 1001 greatest Albums ever? No...
100% vibes 0% melody
I am aware that Lana Del Rey exists. But I have no knowledge of any of her songs. I saw her on TV once (might have been Saturday Night Live) and I all I remember is being impressed how someone could perform on stage with so little energy and seem like she was falling asleep. Lets see how this goes ... Interesting to see this is produced by Jack Antonoff. He seems to be the producer of choice for modern women singers. I noticed he produced the records by Taylor Swift and Lorde that I listened to because of this project - and according to Wikipedia he's worked with many others too. I get some Mazzy Star / Hope Sandoval vibes when listening to this. "Dark But Just a Game" gave me some slight Portishead vibes - maybe because of the trip hoppish beat. On "Dance Till We Die", there was a some moments where she had a bit of a Linda Ronstadt thing going - she should do this more since she has a powerful voice. At times I heard a little Jewel and even some Sheryl Crow similarities peaking through. Lana has a decent singing voice, I especially like it when she get's out of the whisper mode and turns up the energy a bit more - unfortunately that's not very often. Despite it being super mellow, it did have a bit of intensity to it. I think she can ramp up the energy and power a bit more. She had moments where she does this - but it feels like that's an opportunity for her going forward. I read the lyrics - it seems a lot of it is pretty superficial masking as deep but maybe I'm missing something. I get the feeling that Lana is the kind of girl that get's very depressed and upset because the towel the pool boy gave her at her daddy's club had a little stain on it. Cool that she did a Joni Mitchell cover ("For Free") to close this out. Twas an ok listen - ended up liking 6 songs - "Chemtrails Over the Country Club", "Wild At Heart", "Dark But Just a Game", "Not All Who Wander Are Lost", "Dance Till We Die", "For Free". If I was to rank the 3 Jack Antonoff produced artists I've heard so far as part of this project - Lorde would clearly get the top spot without question, then Lana in 2nd and then Taylor 3rd. I think I need to go back and listen to more Lorde. If I was to compare her to other women artists - I find I miss the people like Sinead O'Connor, Sarah McLaughlin, Natalie Merchant, Cowboy Junkies, Lucinda Williams and Edie Brickell. Seems like they all do this so much better. I am glad that I listened to this though, since now I have 6 new songs from an artist where I had zero before this. Liked songs on Spotify: 6/11 Rating: 3/5
I’ve never listened to Lana Del Rey before (as far as I know), so it feels intimidating to jump into the middle of her discography. I found the record to be beautiful, but foreboding at the same time. My favorite tracks were “Wild at Heart” and “Dance Til We Die,” which were perhaps less harrowing than the rest. I also enjoyed “Not All Who Wander Are Lost,” even if it does sound like an audio bumper sticker. “Yosemite” reminded me of Sonic Youth’s cover of “Superstar” and I really hope that was an intentional reference.
To go from one classic folk singer to another great vocalist of the modern era was a treat. It's even more interesting when the album appears to be an attempt at a more folky sound. Prior to this I was only familiar with Del Ray's first album. This was a great album, very enjoyable musically and lyrically. Probably won't seek it out, but if I hear it playing in the wild I will enjoy. 3.5
Oh, a modern album. Those are rare. I think Lana Del Ray has better albums that this one. My luck would be Born to Die or Ultraviolence. White Dress is an ok song though I find the lyrics don't fit the melody well personally. Chemtrails has a weird autotune sound. Tulsa Jesus Freak is just a bad song. Let me love you Like a Woman is probably my top pick of the album. I understand why people like LDR though I would prefer to listen to Lorde or Courtney Barnett or Adele or any number of other similar artists. This is sad girl music to pack magic cards.to.
678/1001 2026.08.12 😴😴🌑🌑🌑
Litt kjedelig for å være ærlig. Skulle gjerne likt dette bedre, hun har andre bra låter 🤷
Litt kjedeleg av og til, men trur det er hennar beste.
Ikke hennes beste, synes jeg. 2-3 men runder opp
no nfr?????
I enjoyed the instrumentals here a lot better than I thought I would. They have a nice vibe and they build up quite well in a lot of the songs, but about half way in the progressions got a bit same-y and tiring, especially considering how little I enjoyed the vocals. They felt like she was spending the whole album trying to sound as airy as she could, but as a result feeling like it made her lose energy and it felt too much like she was trying to imitate others. The lyrics too, didn't help this. I didn't read them all and I'm unaware if this is a concept album, but either way, from what I've read she came from a pretty well off family and lived pretty urban, and yet loads of the songs seem to be trying to convince me she's just a small town girl, one who is "wild at heart", despite the fact this is one of the least energetic pop-y albums I've ever heard. This really took away from the experience, but when she did let loose a little more and sing more (what felt like) naturally, I did actually find that more enjoyable, like in the second halves of the last two songs. Other than that, it was a pretty okay album but not much more for me, especially in comparison to how people talk about Lana's music, although I feel this is likely not a good starting point, but thatcs just the nature of this challenge.
Really not sure why this one made the list and not one of (in my opinion) her better albums, like Norman Fucking Rockwell!, for example. Her songwriting and her vocal performances are not very impressive on this album, and they are really not up to par with some of her better work. Why did she have to write "Arkansas" and pronounce it "ar-kan-zis"? And the line "It wasn't quite what I meaned / If you know what I mean" reallyyyy took me out of the song. This one just wasn't really worth my time, and I wish they had picked a different album of hers that better exemplifies how strong Lana's songwriting can be. The Weyes Blood feature was pretty good though. 2 stars, but more like 1.5 honestly.
I've been an unabashed Lizzy Grant hater from day one but haven't checked in with her since Ultraviolence, so I was willing to give this one some due diligence knowing that artists evolve and can start pretty bad and then later put out good work. Nah, this shit sucks. Good on her for giving the last word to Weyes Blood though, as a reminder of who you should be listening to instead.
3/6
Lana kills it with the wistful melancholy vibes 4.1
Chemtrails Over The Country Club is creative, but I find myself struggling to connect with Lana's music.
piola, un 7 per por el primer tema lo redondeo a 8, auto
I used to absolutely hate Lana. Specifically, her first record bothered me a lot. This was during my pretentious radio days when I had venmous opinions whether they were backed up by any facts at all. I think since i've matured/grown out of pure haterism, I've enjoyed her music more. At the bare minimum, she is a great singer. All that being said, I did not find this record as exciting as others. it's very pretty and spacey but otherwise whatever
I thought I liked Lana del Ray but this sounded like one long song
Things I know about Lana Del Rey (for some reason): she married a regular dude who is a gator fan boat tour captain in Louisiana?
I think I could grow to enjoy this with a few more listens and focus on the lyrics. It is a bit dreamier and sleepy than I wanted but could be enjoyable if I was in the right mood.
2.25 - I LOVE two LDR albums and I like a few others okay. On first listen, this one is no where near as good as what I've heard before.
This isn't my type of music, but I can still appreciate it as a good album, and understand why she is popular. She is a very good singer and song writer, this type of music just isn't for me. Low 4.
Good album - may listen again!
Like many Lana records a strong few songs to start off, dissipating into a slower second half, some duets to keep things interesting that dont necessarily land
I've been meaning to listen to Lana del ray for a while and this is decent, from the cover I thought it was gonna be bad but she has a really nice voice
White girl drama at its finest.
2 - TERRIBLE
wonderful voice
Ek avoid hierdie album al vir 'n week want ek was rerig nie lus vir lana nie maar die was rerig nie 'n slegte luister nie. Bietjie repetetive en nie heeltemal my genre nie maar 'n paar mooi oomblike. Solid album
I enjoyed this album. I like her soft and sexy singing but after a while it gets a bit repetitive. I think she is a good songwriter.
I was looking forward to this, I haven't listened to any Lana Del Rey (apart from the 3 tracks I know and love of hers). I think I'll just stick to the 3 tracks I know and enjoy, sorry Lana. Go you though babe, I'm happy you're out there making music and lots of people love it! What's up with the cover? Terrible angle, typography looks lopsided, 'ok we get it you have friends' energy - just weird all round.
Ok, I really hate the whisper singing. This is just too grating. Definitely not the audience for this.
Another contempo! Another contempo! It's been too long since the last 2020s album. Okay, maybe not. Evermore was only 46 albums ago, though the gap was way longer before that. This is my second-last contempo album. Given that they're exceedingly rare (0.46% chance of rolling an album released in the 2020s) I like to think my week is blessed whenever I pull one of these. Hopefully those chemtrails will lead me to a lucky pot of gold. Anyways, I don't know anything about Lana Del Rey other than that Radiohead's management got on her ass a few years ago for plagiarising Creep in one of her songs, which is a somewhat strange thing for Thom to approve given his flippant nature towards that song. Guess he's gotta defend all of his music lest someone starts pilfering the post rock guitars from How to Disappear Completely. Anyways, I'm curious to know what Del Rey's music sounds like. My impression has always been that she's a breathy, adult contemporary singer. Eeyup. A breathy, adult contemporary singer she is. This is discount Taylor music, I'll be honest. Del Ray reaches for hollow falsettos more than adept songwriting or competent instrumentals, and it shows. The lyrical content is kind of annoying. I'm not sure if it's because of or in spite of stan culture, though I've noticed that a lot of late-2010s/early-2020s girly pop albums center themselves around insipid subject matters and petty interpersonal squabbles. The intent is clearly to make these artists more relatable and human to their audience, though the problem with such an approach is that most of these pop artists have been immersed in entertainment since childhood or hail from parents with ties to showbusiness, which obviously stunts their ability to relate to the average human experience. Most of these kinds of songs are also ghostwritten, though to Del Rey's credit that doesn't appear to be the case with her music. I'm not normally a stickler for lyrics, though the bottom line is that they have to be in service of a good song, which these unfortunately aren't. Like I said earlier, Del Rey constantly reaches for breathy, weightless, falsetto performances without any of the songwriting chops to make these performances land. As a result, many of these songs ring empty and hollow, which causes much of the album to blend together into a grey mush. The instrumentation isn't anything to write home about, though I suppose it's competent. The alternative guitars occasionally have a pleasing sound, the pianos guide many of the songs in a competent direction and the acoustic guitars provide some much-needed variety on the few songs where they feature though that's just about all this music is. "White Dress" is also pretty fucking annoying. I had to get that last bit off my chest before I closed out this review. Anyways, yeah. This album wasn't offensively bad, though I did think it was offensively not good. I don't have a scan of the 2021 book, so I'm moseying right on down to Wikipedia to deduce why this album is in here. Let's see. Del Rey's fifth top-five album in the US. Critics were favourable to the album and it made a few best-of lists. It had a very strong chart performance, making the top ten in 26 of the 29 countries where it charted in addition to topping the charts in 6 countries. The year-end placements were surprisingly tame in comparison to the weekly charts. It landed the year-end charts in 7 countries, notably being the 27th best-selling album in the US, the 48th in Belgium and the 76th in Switzerland. Hmm. Lana Del Rey definitely appears to be a prominent act, though I'm doubtful that this is her most significant, career-defining release. "Norman Fucking Rockwell" appears to be the more critically lauded and commercially successful release when looking at the Wikipedia page. As a result, I'm pretty sure this album is only in here because it was newer when the 2021 book was published. That isn't a good enough reason to justify this album over what is obviously her career highlight, so we're swapping this one out for NFR. I switcharoo this inclusion.
Lana del Rey! 5 stars for album titles. I'd heard of the name, but never listened, till now. Quite pleasantly surprised. Very mellow which is how I like it on rainy mornings, fire going. Yeah.
7/10
Enjoyed this a lot. Lana’s voice is celestial and ethereal. Two favourites were white dress and love me like a woman
Logan - 2/5 Seth - Didn’t listen
I was all set to give this a 3 for leaving me unmoved but not sounding bad. I decided to give it another shot and listen to the lyrics more carefully. Now here we are.
Really didn't like this. Too sappy and depressing.
Lana fan, definitely her worst album
no words
Beautiful
3.4 2x liked this more than i had expected. +music videos
It's not bad. The backing tracks and production is the worst part. They are astonishingly bland. A bit of Cocteau Twins instrumentation would make these songs rip a bit more.
I have complicated feelings over Lana Del Rey as well as this album. Knowing this album was on the 1001 list of albums feels disingenuous when the list and album came out at the same time. It furthers the claims of Lana Del Rey being an industry plant who continues to be shown preferential treatment as such. But beside all of this, it’s particularly egregious to see Chemtrails Over the Country Club be placed on this list when Born to Die covers the same disillusioned Americana themes as this album does and (in my opinion) does so in a better fashion. Lana Del Rey is not a bad musician. But I don’t believe this album deserves to be listened to over her other ones. Breathy, repetitive, and weak compared to some of her other songs. 9/1001
Supremely mid. Not my thing at all and a lot of it just ends up blending together.
I’m baffled that Dimery chose this album when Norman Fucking Rockwell! was right there. I have complicated feelings about Lana Del Rey, but NFR deserves to be on this list, as it’s a genuinely great album. I think it’s easy to write Lana off if this is the only album of hers that you listen to. Her catalog has some real gems, but I like her best when she’s more experimental. This album is slow and crooning, and sometimes boring. Lana is a great lyricist, but the compositions are lacking and the album drags in some places. There are some good songs on here but it’s not a great representation of Lana’s talent or range.
I’m surprised Lana Del Rey made the list, but THIS is the album that made it? Not Born to Die? Woof.
I mean, it's fine? If you like breathy ballads that kind of drift in and out, well I've got you 45 minutes of that. Unless this album broke new ground I'm not aware of, I'm not sure what's notable about it.
Sometimes I'll listen to an album twice to make sure it really is a 5/5. And others I listen two twice in a row because it's just that good. This is the latter. Lana's singing is deeply moving. Many complaints are that her songs all same similarly gloomy, and at a surface, background-listening level, sure you could say that. But there's a lot of variety to the tracks and instrumentation that keep it interesting throughout.
Beautiful album. Ethereal sound.
I was surprised to find I enjoyed this! I had to get over my preconceptions of this as pop music that young people like and therefore irrelevant to me. True, it has that modern production where it sounds like the person is standing right next to you whispering in your ear, but other than that, I liked the melancholy vibe. It reminded me of the Cowboy Junkies who we listened to for 1001 albums. And what I caught of the lyrics seemed wry and funny in places. I can see how this would appeal to young women fans. Yeah, I might come back to this!
Melodic and interesting.
I would have liked a bit more variety. I don't mind a bit off sad girl music, but this album could have done with something to break it up a bit. I didn't mind it, but it's something I'd need to be in a certain mood to revisit. 3*
Sounds like someone is stepping on a mouse.
This is fine, I guess, but not the kind of pop that particularly interests me. Don't hate it but I'd never choose to listen to it. Her voice gets a little shrill for me at times. Otherwise it's fine. "Dance Till We Die" is probably the best song by far.
Yeah. No. Absolutely not for me. Literally couldn't tell when one song ended and another started. Just a drooooooooooooone and me wondering when she was actually gonna start singing instead of whispering.
I love Lana Del Rey, been on her merry go round for about a decade now but! I just want to have a talk with the list creator that put THIS over Born to Die, Ultraviolence, Norman Fucking Rockwell or …Ocean Blvd. I like Chemtrails, but it had to grow on me. Especially with White Dress being the first song you hear, which also had to grow on me but I still don’t particularly love. I do enjoy the rest, Lana’s sound and lyrics are always very easy to get swept up in the cinematic energy of. The Joni Mitchell cover is fantastic. But once again I find myself wondering how they come up with what does and doesn’t make the list. Because there’s only one Lana Del Rey album on this list and there’s four others that serve so much better as entry points to her work and are better examples of her quality.
3 grew on me
If Lana took more time on this and combined it with the best ideas from Blue Bannisters and Ocean Boulevard, she'd have the greatest album of the 21st century. But who am I to tell Lana what to do, when she's in inspired, inspirational, genius goddess with an immaculate voice and genuine standout personality in pop music. Fun to read all the very negative reviews. Foo Fighters fans unsure what to make of autistic women.
This album just feels very muted, it never actually takes off. Just hanging around the launch pad, singing about love and about loneliness. She's got quite a nice voice, but it gets a bit samey after 20 minutes. Sorry Lana.
Hmm. I've listened to the whole album (and still re-listening), and looked at popular reviews here, before writing anything. I'm not sure yet how I'll rate, I don't endorse the strongly positive reviews but I don't have the conviction of condemnation of many of the popular negative reviews. Many of the individual songs sound somewhat appealing (gentle touches courtesy Del Rey and Antonoff), but somewhat portentious - does the spacious sound underline that the stories told by the lyrics are incredibly moving, or is it just easy-listening? The stories are interesting enough on a first listen but don't give any more on a second listen, don't have nearly as much depth or intrigue as the best singer-songwriter work I've had from the generator. Mentions of American place names is not enough to hold my interest in Americana. Nostalgia (for what? lost love?) can be cloying. So I didn't have huge expectations (I've previously seen Del Rey as pop chanteuse rather than deep) but am disappointed. But little if any of it is exactly bad, so I think for now I'll say it's Okay, 6/10.
Pleasant and soothing to listen to with lot of low-key/minimalist melodic arrangements. But a whole album of the stripped down sound gets a little boring after a while. Also doesn't help that the album peaks very early, leaving the back half feeling like an afterthought. Decent overall. Top tracks: Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Wild At Heart, Dark But Just a Game
I like several Lana Del Rey songs, including a few from this album. Those songs are almost exclusively the ones sung in a middle-to-low register. After a while, her breathy soprano songs gets to be monotonous and a little grating.
I knew almost nothing about this album beyond its reputation. That turned out to be an advantage, because I wasn’t listening for “Lana Del Rey”. I was listening for what Elizabeth Grant had written. That’s where the album gradually unlocked itself for me. I ended up thinking of it this way: Elizabeth Grant writes. Lana Del Rey performs. That’s an ingenious division of psychic labour. The writer creates a character capable of carrying celebrity. The trouble is that the character becomes real. Other people’s opinions become your story. The role starts leaking back into the person who invented it. Once I’d seen that, almost everything else fell into place. This isn’t really an album about fame. It’s about mediation. It keeps reaching for ordinary life: waitressing, country clubs, domestic love, touring that turns into airports and hotels, the possibility of simply disappearing into the background. The fantasy isn’t obscurity. It’s privacy. Musically, it’s far richer than I’d expected. The arrangements accumulate rather than announce themselves. The title track begins in crisp focus before gradually blurring until even the drum fills seem to recede into the distance. “Not All Who Wander Are Lost” is carried by beautifully intertwined guitars. On “Yosemite”, a filtered vocal briefly becomes an old television speaker, perfectly matching the lyric about static and How Green Was My Valley. The production rarely explains itself. It simply lets atmosphere gather. I was also struck by how often Lana writes through incidentals rather than grand statements. Places, names and memories appear without explanation, the way they do in real recollection. They’re emotional coordinates rather than plot points. The album’s emotional arc surprised me too. I expected a record preoccupied with celebrity. Instead I found one repeatedly asking whether ordinary companionship might be the greater luxury. Two famous people fall in love, and all they seem to want is the chance to stop being watched. One fascinating moment comes with “Breaking Up Slowly”. It’s the first song where the Lana Del Rey persona almost disappears. I think that’s because it’s a duet. Another consciousness enters the song, and suddenly the mythology has to share the stage. It just becomes two people. The closing cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free” is the perfect ending. By then, the album’s central question has become obvious. Who is actually freer? The famous musician, whose life has become everybody else’s story? Or the busker, still playing for himself? I don’t think Chemtrails over the Country Club quite became one of my absolute favourite records. It isn’t a five-star album for me. But it’s one of the strongest fours I’ve given in this project. Liz Grant is a fucking clever writer, and she’s lucky to have someone as expressive as Lana Del Rey living inside her
I don't think this is her best album tbh
Such a 90’s sound to this album. I dig it.
This isn’t bad but it all feels quite generic
It was alright. Very consistent sonically and rhythmically for sure. Three stars
For some reason, Lana’s music resonates with me. It’s calm, relaxing and slightly depressing. The first half of the album is really good, but I overdose a little bit on the sadness at the end
Okay, so this is going to be a biased one. Probably my most biased review yet. Firstly, I have to say, that i think this is a record, where the highs are super high, and the lows are kinda sounding like b-sides. With that out of the way.... I am not the biggest Lana fan ever, this is her only album of hers i absolutely LOVE. She has other amazing records, but this one stuck with me ever since it came out. And now the gushing: THIS is the album that made me fall in love with hi-fi. This is where it all started. I got my Sennheiser HD600s, had them for a few weeks, they sounded good. But the level of quality that this record has, mixing, recording-wise is just phenomenal in my opinion. If we don't even look at the lyrics, which i actually rarely do, the title track and breaking up slowly have been stuck in my head since 2021, and i have a hard time thinking they would ever leave it. Not a flawless record, but easily one of my favorites of all time.
Oh, so this is what she sounds like. It's so bland and generic. Forced breathy vocals over some nicely manicured tunes. No thanks on to the next one.
She’s got a fantastic voice. Overall, the album has a very sad tone. Maybe that’s what she does. Sounds great, but I’m a bit bummed. 3.2/5.0
More bland American pop, I get that she is extremely successful in a commercial sense but there is nothing here for me thanks.
Not bad nor great
Never listened to much Lana but this was pretty good - only downside is that it’s impossible to hear anything without headphones
I didn’t hate it. I found it rather relaxing honestly. Not my favorite, but I would listen to it again. 3.5/5
Some haunting tones. Better and different than I was thinking it would be, 3
This was pretty bad, almost unlistenable.
Fine. This did not connect with me. I’m familiar with a few of their other songs and those are good. Unclear why this didn’t grab me.
I don’t really know Lana Del Ray. This was nice enough. Maybe I’ll hear some more?
I never really got into Lana. This was alright, but not really my thing. It had flashes of above average-ness. Revisiting this at some point may not be a bad idea. Side note: is it weird that When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? isn’t on this list?
First time I listened to Lana Del Rey. She has a nice voice, but I didn't feel much variation in the songs. Kinda snoozed through it.
lana’s 3rd best. 1. nfr (by a mile), 2. tunnel ocean blvd
I have always liked what I've heard of Lana Del Rey, though I wouldn't really consider myself a fan. I've never heard this album but I basically know what to expect I think. Four songs in and so far all of these songs sound the same. She has a great voice but I want to hear her actually sing. I realized that all I've heard from her she just kind of does this breathy speaking thing. It's cool but maybe open up a bit once in a while. As a whole this album is pretty boring. It never takes off or goes anywhere, it's 11 songs that all have the same structure and tempo. It's a shame because I know that Lana Del Rey is capable of better. 2.25/5
Very solid slow and soft Lana album
Definitely an album for the fans. A few good songs but largely uninteresting. Lots of the songs had interesting moments, but they were hidden by several minutes of repetitive moaning. The title track was pretty good.
8/10 - Surprisingly very good, not overly pop or country at all, reminds me of Adele
Lana Del Rey certainly is an excellent singer but her music … No, no, no! It's simply not interesting except maybe for going to sleep
I really like some of her other albums such as Born to Die. This was just a bit dullm
Rather bland
LDR is one of those contemporary artists that I feel like I'm supposed to know more about but I'm now an old man yelling at clouds. Anyways, this album didn't interest me in the slightest.
I don’t like the airy, breathy, is-this-really-singing thing that is quite popular right now.
I like her voice and some of the vocal melodies, but it's just bland. I feel like there are other records by her that deserve a spot on this list way more. It's not that it's bad, just bland compared to other stuff by her.
You know what it’s not bad. Not bad to listen to
banger
Lidt meget med det samme tempo et helt album, også selvom det lyder vældig godt. Lille 3
Meget dreamy, høj standard. Håber ikke det her er det eneste LDR album på listen, for det er ikke det bedste.
Such a fragile voice
This was definitely listenable and an interesting album. I like a lot of Lana’s music. But there was something missing for me on this listen. I thought her use of falsetto or whatever you want to call it was interesting on White Dress, lots of Joni Mitchell influence on this album. But I don’t know if I would say I “liked” it. The best song on here in my opinion is Wild at Heart. I gave the album a couple listens. Maybe it’ll grow on me.
Sorry Lana das wird nix mit uns.
Good voice, but the songs are all slow and boring from this album
How was this included on the list? Every song sounds the same, which would be fine if the sound was good. Her voice being the only thing saving this from a 1 star. Had to listen to TOOL to finish out my day.
1. Not All Who Wander Are Lost Tulsa Jesus Freak Dance Till We Die Wild At Heart
This album was a bit drab for me…
Boring
This is pleasant, in a samey kind of way. If there was a bit more variety in this I think it would get 4 stars easily, as it is it has to be a high 3. It’s nice enough.
I really dug this album. I look forward to seeking out others by her.
Lana can sing and music sometimes good but some songs are dreary
Pleasant enough but very bland. Plus I is from the ghetto so this LA rich chick music is not my scene, man.
Normally I don’t mind a bit of Lana but this one is ass
Well, well. It's not every day that I get an album from the 2020s, is it? Why is this on the list? Like, this album specifically. I'm not questioning the presence of Lana Del Rey on this list. She is more than popular enough to warrant being here. But, like, there are quite a few albums of hers that I would think to include before Chemtrails Over the Country Club. Granted, I'm not exactly an expert on Lana Del Rey's discography considering the fact that this is the first album of hers I've ever listened to, but I know enough about it to say that an album like Ultraviolence or Norman Fucking Rockwell! would make more sense being here given the stronger legacies of those albums. Is it because this was her most recent album at the time of the last update to the 1001 Albums book? Is it because of Joni Mitchell cover at the end of the album? It's probably because of the Joni Mitchell cover at the end of the album. But, let's move past all of that. How do I feel about my first Lana Del Rey album? I'm not huge on it. I didn't hate this, obviously. There are things I can appreciate, but the experience at large didn't speak to me. I'm not really a fan of Lana's voice, at least not on this album. I'm fine with softer vocals, but this album veers a bit too much into breathy territory for my preferences. The production is solid, but the songs do tend to feel pretty samey, at least to me. The writing is good, I'll say that. There are some decent usages of imagery and some nice lyrical themes on the songs. I get the appeal of this, and I could absolutely see an improved version of this style working on a different album, but I don't think Chemtrails Over the Country Club is the album that's going to win me over on Lana. Not bad, but not my thing personally. 3/5.
LDR, or 'Lana Del Rey' as the cool kids are calling her, has some lovely floaty, folksy songs. Her excessively airy voice is hardly annoying at all. If my wife put this album on in the car, I would not turn it off.
I like a few songs by Lana. None are on this. The songs on this are all nice enough but it's very boring and they all seem similar and come from the same place. I'll give a 2
Decent listen.
good
Not a bad album but just didn't find anything that special about it.
- Major props for the For Free cover
I really like her voice but the songs can get quite repetitive and after 45 minutes its starts to feel quite so very sluggish. overall a decent album but I might have to take it in smaller doses and listen to songs individually
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lana Del Rey är på sätt och vis ny mark för mig. Det jag har hört från henne tidigare har jag gillat men det är nog första gången som jag lägger så här mycket tid på ett album från henne. Jag gillar detta, visst det är väldigt mycket samma sak men hon gör det bra, och känner att jag nog bör kolla upp hennes andra album. Speciellt eftersom när man kollar runt så anses inte detta tillhöra de bättre. Mixningen på Tulsa Jesus Freak var stundtals lite vass, en cymbal som sticker lite i öronen när jag lyssnar med hörlurar. Likaså distar det Let me love you like a woman dock är det väl kanske inget som jag låta ligga i fatet för albumet som helhet. Detta är ett konsekvent bra album men som kanske saknar riktiga toppspår. Det har fått mig sugen att utforska mer från Lana del Rayoch får därför en 4a. Bäst är White dress, Chemtrails over the country club, Tulsa Jesus freak, Let me love you like a woman och Yosemite
I've not listened to LDR before and quite enjoyed it. Life and Eloise interrupted, so I only played a few tracks. May check out her stuff again some time.
Sadly far from my fave Lana, but still Lana
Vocals are not for me.
Man denkt, langweiliger geht nicht, dann kommt Lana und man merkt, doch das geht.
Cool album cover, okay album
I liked this a lot. I love the ethereal vibe. This had way more depth than I was expecting. She's a very mature song-writer and has a great voice, with a lot of beautiful melodies and harmonies. It reminded me of a lot of the things I like about Laura Marling. I'll listen to more of her and won't group her in with 'average pop star' like I had been previously.
Man... Lana Del Rey is someone I always forget about but this is so good.
I have no clue why I enjoy Lana’s music but I do
Not for me. I can see the vision though I guess.
Pretentious like a counterfeit Louis Vuitton from a flea market. Low quality but looks ok from a distance.
its low tempo sad stuff, but it works. she has her way.
This album does to NLOGs and Art hoes what Kind of Blue does to jazz cats. I see the importance of something like this to a young person. But I'm far too crtical for this feign attempt at artistic, mysterious and haunting piano melodies against a boring retelling of sad events. That being said production is mint, vocals were not bad. Songs were a little lackluster but can't win em all.
Wasn't a big fan of this one, I was kinda just waiting for it to be over. Lana Del Rey has a nice voice however.
I like this album less after hearing it in full. I am not the target audience, I know. Much of it sounds sterile, repetitive and tired. I feel tired after listening to it, which I believe is tied to the vocal style. The one song where she does show off her true singing voice is poorly written and doesn't come until about halfway through the album.
I did not hate it.
I liked it, but it's not quite Ultraviolence level to me. I love that album. It's a bit more sinister sounding and I like that.
I don't hate Lana but I didn't necessarily love this. It feels like it's meant to be very close and intimate but her vocals are crazy processed, just made it feel a little dissonant on first rip. Might enjoy more on future listens.
This is an interesting inclusion for the list. It's been about 5 years now, so I have the perspective of some time that a lot of the top reviews didn't. I can say that none of these songs are in Lana's top streams on Spotify, in case that surprises you. This album is fine, but I didn't hear anything extraordinary on my listen. I can hear that the sound is a bit of a departure for LDR, so I give her credit there. I think the vibe was probably appropriate for the pandemic (or just barely post-pandemic) world at the time and that might have skewed some of the critical reviews. In any case, I don't feel like I'll be revisiting this one often (ever).
Listening to this album felt like a chore. Not a single catchy song, or moment. She sounds bored, like someone is forcing her to be there and she can’t wait to go home. I do not understand the hype, especially since I’m not immune to enjoying some similar music, especially the sad stuff. This album is just so boring. Maybe her other albums have some redeeming qualities. Now let’s go see some alligators.
Well... it's beautiful, but my goodness, absolutely every song sounds the same! It's like I'm listening to the same song for 45 minutes.
Notable Textzeile: Meet you for coffee at the elementary schools We laugh about nothing as the summer gets cool It's beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me I'm not bored or unhappy, I'm still so strange and wild Ich habe neulich schon von Mittelmaß gesprochen und es ist wirklich bemerkenswert wie etwas 100 Mio Streams haben kann und dabei so unauffällig. Ich vermisse insgesamt Höhen und Tiefen bei diesem Album, nicht musikalisch, die Stimme geht ja schon oft ziemlich hoch - sondern emotional. Wenn es schon darum geht ruhige, die Gefühle betreffende Musik zu machen dann wäre es doch schön was zu haben was todtraurig ist, was was Hoffnung antäuscht und dann in die Tiefe fällt oder – Achtung verrücktes Konzept – sogar die kurzen Highs der vielen Lows des Lebens feiert. Gibt es nicht. So gibt es auch kein Song der richtig raussticht sondern perfekt produzierte, warme Mittelmäßigkeit, auch textlich. Das lustigste ist noch „Not all those who wander, It's just wanderlust“ - hätte witzig oder cool sein können, wenn es nicht mit so wie bedeutungsschwangerer Schwere vorgetragen würde.
Gefällt mir gut, die Stimme, der Vibe, die zurückhaltende Instrumentierung, die random Stories. Mir gefällt Norman Fucking Rockwell! Oder auch Tunnel under Ocean Bv besser, die sind abwechslungsreicher, beissender, dramatischer... aber wahrscheinlich kriegen wir nur das hier zu hören. Hm. Sehr gute
Klingt ein wenig wie "nach den ersten starken Alben keine Energie mehr für Hits". Das klingt alles gut, aber warum das in der Liste ist - dont know. Sind dann alle andern Alben davor auch hier? Underwhelmed sowohl von LDR als auch von Antonoff.
Welp, not a fan of this at all. I suppose this is marginally less insufferable than Taylor Swift's "folky" stuff, but it's still a tough listen. The music is so grey and depressed and subdued, and the lyrics are just pure cheese. Fave track: - Dark But Just A Game (not even necessarily a great song, but I feel like this is the only somewhat-musically-interesting track on this entire album?)
Enjoyed this. Listened to it twice. Great voice
Beautiful but a bit too whispy throughout.
Prior to listening, I had heard of Lana Del Ray but was not really familiar with her music. Her voice is great and this is a pretty interesting album. She shows a good bit of range in her voice throughout, and the instrumentation is mostly understated but suits her voice well. Let Me Love You Like A Woman is stunning, my favorite from the album. The entire album is good, and I would listen again for sure.
This is one of my daughter's top 5 favorite artists, so I might have been listening to this with a bit more of an open ear than I otherwise would. That said, this album really surprised me as I have never listened to Lana Del Rey before and this was quite good. It's not the best thing ever, as the album isn't amazingly diverse in its sound, but the sound that is there is excellent. The title track is a great song, though my favorite off of this was Yosemite. It had almost a haunting sound, at least to me. I also really liked Dark But Just a Game and a few others. She's a talented artist no doubt, with a breathy voice that is very capable across multiple octaves. 4 stars.
This is as mediocre as they come
Not a lot of variety, but it is nice. I would have chosen Born To Die over this album. She has a very nice voice. Sometimes they went a bit hard on the compression though. My favourites were Dark But Just A Game and For Free.
Her voice isn’t bad I guess, but this was just boring.
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I haven’t listened to LDR since she released her first album. I really enjoyed this album. I really think most of her music sounds similar but there seemed to be some brighter moments on this album. She seemed to be a better place and the album is enjoyable. Not sure if I needed to hear this before I died. But it’s better than some I have heard already.
Meh
Kinda bland
Mid chick album
Lana’s voice is so beautiful, almost haunting. I enjoyed this album, I don’t think it’s her best, but it’s still good. The vape at the start of track 1 is iconic tbf. 3.9/5.0 Best Song: Dance Till We Die
Enjoyed this, she has such a unique way of writing a song, their is a lot of humour and emotion in almost every line. My only issue is that their are times in the album that it gets a little bit boring, but i think the big tracks make up for this.
Gliding breathy vocals that haunt and a mellow vibe that is so chill it is a Lana Del Rey MOOD. Pure and beautiful
I've never really liked Lana Del Rey. Sorry, I know that jeopardizes my basic white girl cred.
I'm no expert but I'm fairly sure even Lana fans consider this a middling album.
Never have I ever wanted to listen to an album on mute before, but here we are. 0.5/5.0: Absolutely Intolerable
if you played me any one of these songs i think id really enjoy it. if you played two back to back id assume this was one really long song. there is very little variation between these songs and the slow tempo makes them feel like they drag on forever.
I've known about Lana Del Ray for a long time now, but I'm surprised I never heard her music anywhere. In the first track "White Dress" she's doing these whisper vocals where she almost doesn't have enough air supporting to get the words out, and I was like "eh, I'm not really sure about this". But it got much better after that. It's atmospheric and moody. I ended up liking it a lot.
Great music for not me.
Sanitised, soulless shite! The exact same "deep" ballad repeated ad-nauseam for however long I managed, all specifically engineered for soundtracking teenage girls' TikTok reels. A sad, sad waste of a space in the book and of my time.
Pleasant pop but that's it.
Good vibes when she's not singing high notes.
I actually like Lana.
I can tell she’s got a great voice but doesn’t really use it, instead continuing to use a whispery, paper thin delivery which gets tiresome after half a dozen songs of it. Enjoyed the Joni track and its evocative music of a sepia toned time, but found it was a bit one-note after a while
I've only listened to Summertime Sadness, and never really got the Lana obsession that allows her to be somehow the ~32nd most streamed artist on Earth. And wow, what a fucking SNOOZEFEST. Piano ballad after piano ballad. Yeah, she can sing and the songs are very well written - but holy shit man, can I at least hear an instrument that isn't a piano? Maybe some drums? Anything? This is just straight sleepy bedtime music. 45 minutes going on 45 hours. I wanted to rate this at least a 3 but honestly I was so bored throughout the entirety of this thing I can't in good conscious give it anything higher than a 2.
She has a beautiful voice but her music is very slow.
After much thinking i do not understand this woman and i love that about her
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Modern music is so basic and boring
u prvoj pjesmi (bleh) spominju se dva katastrofalna američka benda koja sam morao slušati zbog ove stranice: white stripes i kings of leon... super mudseter za ostatak albuma... (koji je ipak u konačnici nešto podnošljiviji od albumâ navedenih debila) ovaj album tipična je, dosadna i preproducirana pop-bezvezarija koju je napisao i producirao džek čifutkov, čovjek koji stoji iza gotovo svih suvremenih pop senzacija, pišući im dosadne i predvidive pop pjesmuljke. takav je i ovaj album, nevjerojatno dosadan, neoriginalan i prije svega gotovo u potpunosti lišen bilo kakve duše. šteta, jer del rey stvarno ima neloš glas. kao najmanje lošu pjesmu izdvojio bih »breaking up slowly«, sve ostalo je za bacit, osim možda posljednje stvari, obrade džoni mičel. dat ću velikodušno labuda, iako bih najradije dao kečinu jer ovaj album predstavlja problem golemog monopola na suvremenoj (američkoj, ali zbog njihove kulturne dominacije svjetskoj) glazbenoj sceni, gdje gotovo sve popularne pjesme piše svega šačičica odavna uguženih ljudi
it's a pretty good album, overall. don’t know how autobiographical it is at times, but not hard to believe these are truish stories
Beautiful voice, and she's clearly going for an Emily Lou Harris vibe here. But, man, could she have made the song tempos any slower?! Waiting for anything interesting to happen in these songs is like waiting for honey to drip off a spoon. Agonizingly downbeat no matter how sweet it sounds.
Wow ok, I didn't expect my biggest surprise of the whole project to be this close to the end. I have listened to a tiny bit of Lana Del Rey, I thought she was alright but not really my thing. I don't know what exactly I was hearing the other times because this is beautiful. Such soft and heartfelt songs, not done in a way thats feels at all annoying or melodramatic. I genuinely just can't believe how amazing this is compared to my expectations, I'm so glad to see that even being almost done with this there are still some undiscovered gems hiding every now and then.
i just don't like this genre
It’s not my favorite album of hers, but these are strong songs that really grow on you the more you listen.
Just a bit too breathy for me in the vocals and a bit slow.
Born To Die was right there.
First Lana Del Ray album I’ve listened to in full Got given the vinyl of this a few years back. Wasn’t sure if I’d enjoy it but it’s nice. Very moody, her voice is lovely and the songwriting is decent. Haven’t listened to any of her albums since but I’m sure I will at some point. Favourite track: White Dress
Kinda boring to be honest. Lana has one song that I really like and it isn't on here. Also, chemtrails aren't real. Everything's a conspiracy if you don't understand basic science.
The female version of Mark Kozelek
This was my first time listening to Lana del ray and honestly I enjoyed the landscape she created with her lyrics. Each song had a familiar structure to them with similar subject matter but songs like white dress and dance till we die still hold a place in my mind after listening. I think the main takeaway I got from this album is the production which I really enjoy, the acoustic stylings really keep me engaged and I think every song on here has interesting backing to go with Lana's lyrics. Fav tracks: white dress, chemtrails over the country, wild at heart, dark but just a game, and dance till we die
Olipa jotenkin tosi tylsiä ja mitäänsanomattomia kappaleita ja mää kummiskin tykkään folkista. Vaikka tää onkin sitä tosi rajalla. Ja yleensä en kiinnitä huomioita sanoihin kauheasti, mutta niitäkin särähti tässä typerästi. Laulutyyli ja jotenkin se lausumistyylikin ärsytti. Petyin. Parhaat: Wild At Heart
Ew.
i’ve tried multiple times to get into lana del rey but i never seem to be able to. although some of these songs were sort of beautiful, they didn’t hold my interest at all
So boring
Wasn't bad, but needed a bit more edge.
No my favorite of hers but still pretty good.
3/5 fav: Tulsa Jesus Freak
Difficult to do a rating for this one. I absolutely hated the first song and even needed to skip it half way through. Which has not happened yet. Other songs were kind of okay, even good. I just did not like the singer's voice. Especially how she sang, it was very breathy. Not for me.
Big bunch of meh
Tror jeg har sovet på Lana. Hun låner liberalt fra det nasjonal-romantiske americana mythoset og leverer det såpass deadpan at det transcenderer kitsch & dårlig smak. Musikalsk lener hun seg på ikoner som Joanna Newsom, Chris Isaak, og David Lynch, men også kontemporære kilder -- tenker spesielt på FKA twigs' MAGDALENE (særlig under de første sporene) som kom ut et par-tre år tidligere. Det er noen dips under midtpartiet, men sånn over fjøla synes jeg det er spennende nok til at jeg blir trukket tilbake. Men hvor er Norman Fucking Rockwell? Ingenting her som når opp til feks. Venice Bitch.
Jeg syns det startet litt tregt og med litt mye pustesang, men det vokste på meg og avslutta knallsterkt.
There was music playing for the last 45 minutes? Huh. I remember nothing.
Indistinct mumbling with no form or substance, to be used exclusively as a sleeping aid
Pleasant enough but way too sleepy for my preference.
This would hit if I was a depressed teenage girl but I'm not
OK c 'était archi chiant
Aggressively overproduced mediocrity
A popstar who dreams of being a tradwife on Quaaludes who dreams of being Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde. I'd say it's much ado about nothing, but it's really not worth disturbing Shakespeare for.
Prefer Lana Del Rabies. Never really bothered with Del Rey based on the odd track I've heard but this isn't horrible and I wouldn't turn it off if it came on the radio. Just not something I'd expect to be on a list of albums to listen to before I die.
Quite good.
20’s Pop ⭐️Chemtrails Over The Country Club
She is really good at producing this one specific type of style and song. If you're in to that sound, this album is probably a gold mine. I found it a bit repetitive and wish the instrumentation was featured a little more prominently.
I’ve tried to get into Lana Del Rey in the past and I just don’t get it. Not that it’s bad, she’s clearly a good songwriter and singer, but listening to her music does absolutely nothing for me. There was like 20 seconds in the second half of Dance Till We Die where drums come in and I started thinking there could be something here, but they quickly disappear again and the song returns to the same boring, melancholic drone.
Me gustaron más los dos primeros sobre todo, pero es agradable de escuchar y me he guardado la canción que da título al disco. Este 2026 parece que hay uno nuevo de ella.