![]() ![]() It is a little sad that no song here manages to achieve the instant classic feel of Video Games, Born to Die or Ride. If David Bowie can dress up like an alien and become a cultural icon or Quentin Tarantino can get Oscar nominations for Django Unchained, why should Lana Del Rey feel the need to justify her artificial theatrics? Wherever this music is coming from, I feel something when I hear it. I still maintain there is no mainstream artist out there who is making this particular brand of retro "cool" again - Lana Del Rey is a singular phenomenon. ![]() A valid sticking point with this album might be that the themes are old hat, and that most of the songs seem like they surfaced out of the same rich older man's Jacuzzi. Ultraviolence is a full length vindication - less gimmicky hip hop, more texture to the style, and a cohesive system with its own character. The record hums with a thick, full sound, but drops the "anything goes" approach of her debut.įorget the often ludicrous lyrics (see the title track for some examples) or the irrelevant bleating about inauthenticity, anti-feminism, etc. They are characteristics of Lana Del Rey's latest musical effort on Ultraviolence she cranks up the distress as she simultaneously pares back some of the excess we have come to associate with her. ![]() Suffocative and bleak - these are not adjectives often ascribed to pop music. Review Summary: The diamond is polished to a violent gleam.
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