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Lana Del Rey
- Record Label: Interscope
- Release Date: Mar 24, 2023
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Mar 24, 2023It is either the sound of someone who has begun to believe her own publicity, or who has stopped caring what anyone else thinks and is determined to follow her muse wherever it wanders. There’s a fine album lurking amidst the indulgence but listeners have their work cut out trying to locate it.
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Mar 24, 2023Ocean Blvd traffics in some nimble, effervescent melodies, a few memorable vocal passages, and the occasional tuneful duet (Father John Misty proves to be an exceptional bedfellow on “Let the Light In”). But the album feels more like a placeholder in Del Rey’s discography than a truly audacious chapter in the singer’s blossoming late-period reawakening.
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Mar 24, 2023Though a handful of tracks sparkle, Under Ocean Blvd is a chore to ingest across its regularly lulling 77 minutes. ... Yes, Del Rey sings beautifully and will rightfully be recognized as a veritable voice of her generation — both in technique and disillusion — but here the cool distance she’s maintained between herself and listeners feels more expansive than ever.
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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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User score distribution:
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Positive: 772 out of 821
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Mixed: 19 out of 821
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Negative: 30 out of 821
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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 24, 2023
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Mar 24, 2023Easily one of her best albums ever ! Constantly outdoing herself iktr. Bravo Lana