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90
Where once Lana Del Rey’s world was a small as the circumference of the muscular arms that encircled her, now it’s as big as the fears that rattle us all – and it’s this widening of her vision that makes Lust for Life her most compelling LP yet.
90
On Lana Del Rey’s fourth outing Lust For Life, our heroin demonstrates wit, strength and sorrow over its mammoth 71 minutes. Her ability to magnify minute emotional devastation to the giddying scales of her own performance and persona is bewildering.
85
At 16 tracks long, some may wonder what the album holds, but its sheer length ends up playing to its advantage. Mixing vintage pop with hip hop and poison, Del Rey is at her usual best. While the album takes a few tracks to hit its stride, the majority of the record more than makes up for its slow start.
83
There are a thousand things that set Del Rey’s fourth album apart from the rest of her contemporaries. Accompanied by what sounds like an orchestra played entirely by ghosts, her use of electronic trappings never feel overwhelming or fake. Instead, their sparse beauty elevates her haunting vocals.
80
Lust For Life is more of an elaboration on her favourite subjects rather than a repetition, in fact, it’s her most expansive album to date.
80
This album features some of the most sophisticated production and shifting of moods from her four-album career.
80
Witty, complex, and endlessly intriguing, ‘Lust For Life’ is a painstakingly woven record from start to finish, with very few gripes.
80
Even if Lust For Life isn’t a game changer, it fulfills the potential of a sound that she has been slowly perfecting since she first entered the scene. The album, like Lana Del Rey, has earned the right not to be overlooked.
80
'Lust For Life’ deals with themes that’ll be familiar to Lana devotees; faded Hollywood glamour, skewed Americana and terrible love. But this time around, Lana is even more grandiose than usual, with lush, sweeping orchestration draped elegantly over each of the album’s 16 tracks.
80
Lust For Life lets a bit of light into the darkness of Del Rey’s moody past works, hinting at emotional recovery without drastically altering her sensuous musical palette.
80
Although the reinvention teased before release never materializes, Lust for Life is still a return to form which should cement Del Rey’s status as the queen of femme fatale pop.
80
Lust for Life represents the thawing of the ice queen we thought we knew, and the strange death of her American dream. The warmth and humility revealed beneath are all the more thrilling for how well they were kept under lock and key. Human after all.
80
Throughout this accomplished, assured new record, Lana manages to repeatedly freeze time and capture those fleeting cinematic moments that make us who we are, while reminding us of who we could be.
80
It feels like Lust For Life is the album where she’s letting her guard down. It could well be her best and most vital statement yet.
80
The ageless 32-year-old arrived at a languid sound, a detached authorial voice and a set of obsessions on her 2012 debut Born to Die, and her fourth album remains true to them all.
77
Since the drastically superior Paradise Edition reissue of Born to Die, Del Rey has neither swayed nor settled. Instead, doubling down on her palette of inky blues and blacks, the singer-songwriter has delivered a trio of dark, dense, radio-agnostic albums that stand wholly apart from any of her pop music peers.
75
Lust For Life espouses the strengths of simplicity and modernity: Its beats are subtle hip-hop twitches or electro-pop swells, with percussion redolent of faraway fireworks booms or mellifluous melodic washes.
75
If the signature style of America’s 21-century chanteuse isn’t your cup of tea, then steer clear of her fourth album Lust for Life. But if you count yourself among Del Rey’s disciples, get excited. Lust for Life is a whole lotta Lana.
70
Lust for Life, Lana Del Rey's most ambitious album to date, is a sprawling contemplation of her aesthetic and its various dissonances.
70
Shying away from the big riffs of 2013's Ultraviolence and the glossy noise of 2015's Honeymoon, Lust for Life is almost like a fan service album, solidifying the idea of Del Rey as a trapped-in-space pop star of yore who happened to touch down in Los Angeles in the era of streaming music and sponsored afterparties.
70
Compared to her previous albums, especially its somnolent 2015 predecessor, Honeymoon, Lust for Life is positively ebullient in tone, if not in tempo.
70
I never expected that Lana Del Rey’s voice would be one of reassurance. Lust For Life is still her, the Best God Bless American Girl, but with her inner well-being coming together just as the United States affective sphere is coming apart, her fixed position feels more a lantern now than a siren.
70
Lust for Life postures itself above all as Lana Del Rey’s most optimistic, political, and globally conscious record to date. Much in the same way that Katy Perry has begun making so-called “purposeful pop”, here Del Rey questions her role as a musician in ushering in a better world.
70
Since Lizzy Grant emerged as Lana Del Rey back in 2012, she's been donning the trope of the Hollywood starlet with a darkness surrounding her. On Lust For Life, to some degree that gloom has lifted: it's perhaps for the first time we're really seeing the Lizzy behind the Lana.
70
With some more judicious editing, a good album could have been an outstanding one, but even so, this is still superior, well-crafted noir-pop that maintains Del Rey’s impressive career to date.
67
No matter how deserving Lana is of accreditation, and how close she is to true vindication, less than half of the tunes on Lust for Life are worthy of Born to Die, Paradise, Ultraviolence, or Honeymoon, despite the handful of very promising singles that would make you think otherwise.
60
Lust For Life may be a scattered, confusing record, but it's a beautiful ride—one worth repeated listens, even if Lana's intentions—like her enunciation—aren't always clear.
60
The optimism of Lust For Life is a pleasant surprise, though the album is still painted in the same shades as Del Rey’s previous releases. At times it’s some of her best material, but it seems like a record best experienced in pieces than as a proper whole.
60
While Lust for Life might be Lana Del Rey's weakest attempt at reconciling her old school and new school influences, it's also the first time I've come away from one of her albums with more highlights than lowlights.
60
Lana Del Rey’s Lust for Life may well be the funniest piece of post-ironic conceptualist performance art project you’re likely to hear this year.
40
Lana’s music has the potential to capture a mood-heavy hopelessness that stems from real emotions or else to move on to something more hopeful, but unfortunately, here it lacks the impact or focus to truly make it work. Her approach has often been coined as style-over-substance, but her latest, lifeless record seems to lack both.
Jul 19, 2017
Lana Del Rey is excited about life on her new album and with that horny, she delivered an incredible material. Lust for Life has wonderful productions like 13 Beaches, good compositions like Get Free, wonderful collaborations like in Beautiful People Beautiful Problems with Stevie Nicks and a song that touched my soul called Groupie Love.
Best: Groupie Love, 13 Beaches, Get Free, Love, Heroin, In My Feelings, God Bless America
Worst: Coachella, Summer Bummer
It isn't the perfect material but ... read more
Best: Groupie Love, 13 Beaches, Get Free, Love, Heroin, In My Feelings, God Bless America
Worst: Coachella, Summer Bummer
It isn't the perfect material but ... read more
Jul 20, 2017
Listening to this album after "Melodrama" is the same as watching Britney Spears perform at last year's VMAS after watching Beyoncé's incredible performance.
Jul 22, 2017
Leave it to Lana Del Rey to produce the first good politically charged album worth listening to under the Trump presidency. The music here is spacious and ethereal, like many of her last albums and thusly boring at its worst. However, there are plenty of new percussive sounds here - the trap beat of "Summer Bummer", the subdued kicks of "Love" - and conscious lyrics that culminate to an album that is full of surprises.
Jul 30, 2017
Muito bom, uma bela surpresa pra mim que ouço pela primeira vez um disco dela. É um pop bom de ouvir, bem atmosférico, com uma pegada vintage e ao mesmo tempo bem moderna, mesclando muito bem elementos do hip hop, do r&b e do folk, Gosto da voz dela e das melodias que ela desenvolve nessas músicas, com uma melancolia particular bem contemplativa e emocional, e a produção é perfeita em formatar um som bem denso e vibrante pra essas ... read more
END OF YEAR LISTS
| #2 | / | Crack Magazine |
| #7 | / | Rolling Stone (Pop) |
| #8 | / | NME |
| #9 | / | Cosmopolitan |
| #11 | / | Les Inrocks |
| #19 | / | Noisey |
| #21 | / | The Independent |
| #26 | / | Rolling Stone |
| #26 | / | Rolling Stone (Australia) |
| #32 | / | Pitchfork |
| #33 | / | BrooklynVegan |
| #35 | / | Dork |
| #39 | / | Q Magazine |
| #46 | / | Complex |
| #48 | / | Billboard |
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| #8 | / | Pitchfork (Pop and R&B) |
| #14 | / | The Genius Community |
| / | VIBE |
Track List
- Love
- Lust For Life (feat. The Weeknd)
- 13 Beaches
- Cherry
- White Mustang
- Summer Bummer (feat. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
- Groupie Love (feat. A$AP Rocky)
- In My Feelings
- Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind
- God Bless America - And All the Beautiful Women In It
- When the World Was At War We Kept Dancing
- Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (feat. Stevie Nicks)
- Tomorrow Never Came (feat. SEAN ONO LENNON)
- Heroin
- Change
- Get Free
Added on: March 29, 2017
