Lana Del Rey

Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant

Could call this summery dream pop I guess? Plenty nice ballads on here. Very focused on the choruses I feel but she is putting together pretty, catchy and very elegantly sung tracks. Much like Born to Die it's what she does too much of rather than not enough of that weighs the album down. There's a little bit of that tacky 'adlibbery' on this one that was very prominent on the followup. I mean, when you're ruining entire songs (Gramma) that would've otherwise been nice by adding horrid chipmunk ... read more

Kill Kill - 7.4
Queen of the Gas Station - 7.4
Oh Say Can You See - 7
Gramma - 7.2
For K, Pt. 2 - 7.4
Jump - 7
Mermaid Motel - 6
Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) - 6.3
Pawn Shop Blues - 6.8
Brite Lites - 6.6
Put Me in a Movie - 7
Smarty - 7.2
Yayo - 7

69/100

0/10 Kill Kill
10/10 Queen of the Gas Station
10/10 Oh Say Can You See
10/10 Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)
10/10 For K, Pt. 2
10/10 Jump
10/10 Mermaid Hotel
9/10 Raise Me Up (Mississippi South)
10/10 Pawn Shop Blues
10/10 Brite Lites
10/10 Put Me in a Movie
10/10 Smarty
10/10 Yayo

One of the weirdest listens in my whole life. Its almost a concept album. Very, very interesting.