Chemtrails Over the Country Club
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100
The star follows up her career-high 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!' with another stunning album, one the aches with meditations on fame and romance.
7mo
100
A great storyteller, Del Rey consistently delivers the who, what, where and when.
7mo
100
Chemtrails Over the Country Club is another gorgeously enigmatic showpiece from a singer-songwriter who revels in private ambiguities in the dazzling glare of audacious songcraft.
7mo
100
As with all of her work, Chemtrails demands complete buy-in from the listener. It’s self-serious, the pacing never rising beyond creakingly woozy.
7mo
90
A record that thrives on the most miniscule of details, ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ is a project that rewards patience ... An enchanting listen, her world-building remains absolutely undimmed on this triumphant, bewitching project.
7mo
90
Of course, the music Lana Del Rey actually makes is not something that can be so easily lampooned. This album proves that, demonstrating once again how complex, consistent and completely irresistible Lana is - and has been ever since the moment 'Video Games' dropped.
7mo
90
Simply put, she’s got the touch, whether you like what she’s got to say or not. And it is music you cannot ignore — it is good. Chemtrails Over The Country Club, her latest, is no exception.
6mo
90
This is some of Del Reyβs most intricate and exquisite work.
6mo
85
The singer sketches out a complicated relationship with success while maintaining her high-quality control.
6mo
83
Chemtrails over the Country Club is a gorgeous listen: charming, clever, and vulnerable. Del Rey is as effective as ever in painting American fantasies, evoking nostalgia for realities always out of reach.
7mo
80
The intoxicating strain of California anomie that pervaded 2019's Norman Fucking Rockwell is still, thankfully, strong on Del Rey’s excellent seventh album.
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8mo
80
With Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Del Rey shows her softest moments can be her most powerful.
7mo
80
Sshe has a very real shot at becoming one of those enduring, timeless artists she often pays tribute to. This is in large part down to the staying power of the music itself – it is rare to find albums within the upper tier of mainstream pop that require time to percolate and get better with each listen rather than the reverse.
7mo
80
Del Rey’s music deals in the private tragedies of these glamorous elites and, in the time of a pandemic, it’s a bizarre irony that such stories still fascinate us so.
7mo
80
Like its creator, it’s off in a world of its own, free of commercial obligations and revelling in that autonomy. It’s a lovely place to visit.
7mo
80
In symbiotic collaboration with Antonoff, these beautifully rendered pop tunes construct Del Rey’s artistic reality, as honestly as she knows how.
7mo
80
Whilst it isn’t the universal smash hit that Norman F**king Rockwell instantly was, you get the feeling that Chemtrails Over the Country Club is a slow burner, whose flame will ignite the next chapter of Del Rey’s career and all the many splendid opportunities that brings with it.
7mo
80
During a period that's tailor-made for navel-gazing and nostalgia, Lana has produced yet another timely record for us to brood over.
7mo
80
This album is a perfect continuation from Del Rey’s last record offering a similar style but with a more stripped-down atmosphere production-wise ... This album is another triumph for Lana Del Rey.
7mo
80
On her strikingly assured seventh album, Del Rey reflects on fame, love, loneliness and the solidarity of fellow female songwriters, from Joni Mitchell to Weyes Blood.
7mo
80
On Chemtrails, her most subdued and introspective album thus far, she soundtracks the death of the American dream right from the heart of Hollywood, just as she did on her previous effort, 2019’s electrifying Norman Fucking Rockwell! And while it may not have as many grandiose showpieces as its older sibling . . . Chemtrails is every bit as sharp and prescient of a cultural artifact from pop’s premier Cassandra.
7mo
80
Chemtrails picks up the nostalgic thread of 2019's Norman Fucking Rockwell!, though here she's mostly Midwest and more melodic.
6mo
79
Chemtrails Over the Country Club is a record full of euphoric highs and baffling lows. It’s an enjoyable listen that cinematically celebrates Del Rey’s vocal prowess. But perhaps most importantly, it places her front and center as the scrappy protagonist no one expects to win.
7mo
75
Lana Del Reyβs sixth album dials back the grandiosity in favor of smaller, more intimate moments. It carries a roaming spirit of folk and Americana without losing the romantic melodrama of her best work.
7mo
75
Chemtrails is less a full transformation than the first step forward in another direction.
7mo
70
The album is a compelling, if minor, chapter in the artistβs ongoing saga of fatalistic romanticism.
7mo
70
The confidence feels diminished, the rich production of its predecessor replaced by something thinner, sadder.
7mo
70
For better or worse, Chemtrails Over The Country Club is 100% a Lana Del Rey record that fits quaintly into her discography. Anyone following her up to this point shouldn’t bat an eye at how sharp of a left turn this is compared to her previous album. She’s absurdly contrived, but the allure is far too captivating to look away.
7mo
70
Though Chemtrails Over the Country Club isn’t quite Lana Del Rey's strongest album or the most iconically Lana, it’s an intimate, emotional, and largely successful renewal of her artistic vows.
7mo
70
Even if it doesn't stack up to NFR, Chemtrails Over the Country Club is a solid songwriting statement from Lana.
7mo
70
Chemtrails over the Country Club is sultry at times, syrupy sweet at others, and sad in a truer way than we have yet seen from Lana. It is a well-woven escape, but it is harder than ever not to wonder: at what cost?
7mo
70
Everything is just right in Chemtrails – the lyrics, the themes, the delivery, the majestic drums that beat through the songs, the impeccable production. If anything, it’s almost too perfect to be truly memorable.
7mo
60
Her usual themes of nostalgia, troubled fame and neβer-do-well lovers are trotted out again β but the melody writing is stronger than ever.
7mo
58
If any mid-sized indie artists released this album, it would be received well. But the issue is that itβs coming from someone capable of artistic genius, not making it worth the wait.
7mo
30
By and large, Chemtrails Over The Country Club confirms every longstanding inadequacy to Lana del Rey’s craft with a pernicious listlessness that bloats its relatively economical runtime and extends a mind-erasing tedium far beyond those temporal confines.
7mo
enchantingly hypnotic, lana is as enrapturing as ever. she shows her expert annunciation, and demonstrates her recent evolvement. lana’s previous two projects, ‘nfr’ and ‘violet bent backwards over the grass’, have their vibes coalescing into ‘chemtrails over the country club’.
‘chemtrails over the country club’ is equable and powerful; it’s heartfelt. lana sounds unbelievably clear, and her writing styles are varied. there’s an ... read more
‘chemtrails over the country club’ is equable and powerful; it’s heartfelt. lana sounds unbelievably clear, and her writing styles are varied. there’s an ... read more
Ahh, my 200th review on this lovely site.
First a confession of guilt: yes, I listened to the leaks.
I can say hand on heart that this album gets better with each listen. It's still Lana. It's still the same woman singing about amorous misalliances. But this time the lyrics are dressed in slightly different instrumentation. One that, to be honest, I sometimes missed in her work.
For example, the refrain of "White Dress" is downright anti-Lana.
In "Tulsa Jesus Freak" we ... read more
First a confession of guilt: yes, I listened to the leaks.
I can say hand on heart that this album gets better with each listen. It's still Lana. It's still the same woman singing about amorous misalliances. But this time the lyrics are dressed in slightly different instrumentation. One that, to be honest, I sometimes missed in her work.
For example, the refrain of "White Dress" is downright anti-Lana.
In "Tulsa Jesus Freak" we ... read more
Chemtrails Over The Country Club checks all the LDR boxes. She's of course an artist in constant evolution, her voice keeps somehow getting better and better with time. The weather in this record is somewhat completely different from NFR yet it has some similarities.
The music direction feels more effortless than her last albums but is more palatable this time around, I feel like this album will please the audiences more, just like Born To Die.
For the first time I actually feel Lana being ... read more
The music direction feels more effortless than her last albums but is more palatable this time around, I feel like this album will please the audiences more, just like Born To Die.
For the first time I actually feel Lana being ... read more
Calming, the only sounds to be heard is the wisps of wind flying by. Staring into the midnight sky, an empty black. Nothing to be found except one star, alone, shining bright as ever, but once again alone. “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” is that star, as much as it shines, it doesn’t seem to shine bright enough as if it were a full sky. As incredibly raw and serene as it is, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club'' still contains points and times where the album has ... read more
chemtrails is by far my favorite lana album. her vocals and lyrics have gotten much better over time and the minimalist production and instrumentals works much better on this album. this album feels very intimate. there are a few tracks that felt a little bit boring, but a majority of the tracks were beautiful. if you liked lana’s earlier stuff you’ll love this
faves: white dress, not all who wander, dark but just a game, tulsa jesus, yosemite
least faves: let me love you, ... read more
faves: white dress, not all who wander, dark but just a game, tulsa jesus, yosemite
least faves: let me love you, ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | White Dress 5:33 | 86 |
| 2 | Chemtrails Over the Country Club 4:31 | 86 |
| 3 | Tulsa Jesus Freak 3:35 | 82 |
| 4 | Let Me Love You Like a Woman 3:20 | 73 |
| 5 | Wild at Heart 4:06 | 82 |
| 6 | Dark But Just a Game 3:55 | 83 |
| 7 | Not All Who Wander Are Lost 4:07 | 79 |
| 8 | Yosemite 5:04 | 76 |
| 9 | Breaking Up Slowly 2:57 feat. Nikki Lane | 75 |
| 10 | Dance Till We Die 4:03 | 77 |
| 11 | For Free 4:11 feat. Zella Day, Weyes Blood | 75 |
Total Length: 45 minutes
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1d
I need more time with Chemtrails. It is for me, her weakest work, although is far from being a bad record. It lacks something from Lana, so I'll need a push.
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Added on: August 30, 2019