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

( ☆☆½ ) ambivalent, i don't feel fully connected with it

yayo yes you

"Lana Del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant" is a great debut, but the album has some cracked moments. Most of the songs are emotional and it really warms my heart.

✅ Kill Kill | Mermaid Hotel | Brite Lites | Yayo