by
Lana Del Rey
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Mar 24, 2023
Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
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Universal acclaim- based on 744 Ratings
- Summary: The ninth full-length studio release from singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey features guest appearances from Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, Riopy, and SYML.
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- Record Label: Interscope
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Contemporary Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 25
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Mixed: 4 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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Mar 24, 2023This album is a rich feast. Even if, to get the full gist of things, it does call for research and multitasking. ... As for the writing itself, there’s not an unfascinating moment on the album, whether she’s making characteristically quotable, glaringly bold declarations or leading attentive superfans into obscure rabbit holes.
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Apr 12, 2023So while Del Rey is still the same sepia-tinted, sun-soaked American aesthete that she once was, there are real lifetime stamps all over Did you know that conjure a biographical sincerity, instigating a personal closeness.
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Mar 20, 2023It is her quietest, most wilfully inscrutable record in a long time, perhaps since 2015’s glacially paced, rebelliously quiet Honeymoon. ... Instead, many songs here are subtle, vaporous, but potent all the same.
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Mar 27, 2023Del Rey, at her best, has a finger not just on the pulse, but somewhere beneath the flesh. And she is occasionally at her best here. “Ocean Blvd” is Del Rey’s strongest and most daring album since “Rockwell,” though it’s also marked by uneven pacing and occasional overindulgence.
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Mar 20, 2023Framed by twin poles of classicism and experimentation, ‘Did you know…’ never truly succumbs to either. An often-unsettling river of song, it finds Lana Del Rey discussing uncomfortable truths, while denying the use of easy answers. What she chooses to reveal is profound, occasionally disquieting, and never dull.
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May 31, 2023Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is a 16-track, 78-minute album, and some of it will lose even her most ardent fans. Track eight is where it regains itself through the extended metaphor of “Kintsugi”: a Japanese term for a pottery repair technique that calls attention to the crack rather than hides it. .... [After “Margaret”] There are three more tracks, though.
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Mar 30, 2023This latest Lana del Rey record does contain some measure of robust and moving songwriting about topics other than sex, death and California. ... Secondary highlights “Paris, Texas” and “Kintsugi” disappear into the background; otherwise cogent hip-hop flirtations turn into innocuous daliances (“Fishtail”); the middle of the road becomes the most desolate of wasted spaces (“Fingertips”).
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Positive: 344 out of 357
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Mixed: 6 out of 357
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Negative: 7 out of 357
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Mar 24, 2023
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Mar 24, 2023Lana Del Rey's 9th studio album is very experimental but worth it, Also, the song-writing skill is absolutely phenomenal in this album.
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Mar 24, 2023Intelligent and deeply thoughtful. Brave with no care to follow a trend of radio friendly music.
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Mar 25, 2023That"s more an incredible Lana's album. This time, more challenging and innovative!
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Apr 3, 2023Such a great album by Lana. It is really lush detailed and there is so much depth is her vocal performances and lyrics.
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Mar 24, 2023
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Apr 26, 2023This review contains spoilers, click expand to view.
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