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  1. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Great album, beautiful songs. I love this album so much
  2. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Best album of 2019 we HAD to stan. 10000000000000000000000000000000000000/10 rating
  3. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Amazing! Lana Del Rey’s best ever album. Every song has beautiful melodies and great, thoughtful lyrics.
  4. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    A masterpiece, and **** all of y'all rating this **** 0 this is a clean 10 an this is obvs AOTY
  5. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Beautiful album! Poetry is not dead. Gorgeous melody and lyrics. A powerful moment. Thanks Miss Del Rey.
  6. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Amazing! Lana Del Rey’s best ever album. Every song has beautiful melodies and great, thoughtful lyrics.
  7. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. the best album, i listen and ride a every world strange in my mind, beautiful beautiful beautiful, you must listen this album Expand
  8. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    absolutely amazing!!!! the queen is at it again. ethereal vocals, electrifying lyrics. probably my favorite album of hers by far.
  9. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The album is so beauty, perfect, the best album from lana, and aoty for grammy 2020 Expand
  10. Sep 4, 2019
    10
    Incredible album, its on par with aka and aka is that bicth. she really did that huh
  11. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Watch Ajall’s review on YouTube, it’s everything. Lana is back, and singing my heart out. Expand
  12. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Pure greatness from start to finish. There are literally no skips on the album. Her best in a while
  13. Sep 5, 2019
    10
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  14. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    For those who say Lana Del Rey makes the same music, I urge you to listen to this album, Lana and Jake did a tremendous work< truly a Celebration of Lana's career. The Grammys shoudn't look the other way on this one like it did to other Lana's albums. thank you.
  15. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This album is a brilliant work of art from start to finish. It's light and whimsical at times and sad and dark at other times, but getting lost in Lana's lyrics, melodies, and voice is pure magic always.
  16. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    O melhor álbum da Lana, com certeza. Cinnamon girl, bartender, love song, california, happiness is a butterfly, nfr, doing time são perfeitas! The best of the year !
  17. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    this album is the audio version of holy bible. all song are amazing. ❤️❤️❤️
  18. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The best album ever made of all time. Lana’s sultry voice and poetic lyrics only seem to get better and better. True art. Expand
  19. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This album is amazing! Well, I'm almost at a loss for words. Lana uses many cultural elements in this album to create a grand background and makes a difference in a breathtaking way. I burst into tears when I first heard The Greatest, Love Song and California in this album. NFR! is without doubt the NEXT BEST AMERICAN RECORD. Expand
  20. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Lana's best album yet. A masterpiece! Cohesive, conceptual, current, and aoty.
  21. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Despite Lana has been working hard in her career, this is the first time that people start to worth her. She is one of the most complete artists nowadays, she prefers to keep her style, and this album is the evidence.
  22. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Definitely ALBUM OF THE YEAR! i have no words to describe how good this album is. recommended 100|%
  23. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Lana has always been my muse when my inspiration is running out and this album also slays! The consolation and serenity it brings make whole world pause for her, and We should do nothing better but to support her. The adivice is that someone including her fans should stop rating low score purposely for Lana and all u guys should do is streaming it getting to know what is the real masterpiece.
  24. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    É um ótimo álbum, em termos de melodia, composição e interpretação. Merece nota máxima e com certeza um grammy. Álbum do ano de longe. Parabéns Lana.
  25. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Masterpiece in my eyes.I hope this year Lana will win a grammy because she really deserves it with this one! Expand
  26. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This Album is a masterpiece! The melodies and the lyrics of this album is fenomenal.
  27. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    another era of lana (after lust for life), an everything to be grateful of!!!
  28. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    An excellent compilation of poetry, creative maturation and artistic refinement with subtle political criticism. A necessary album!
  29. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    Still amazed with the quality and depth within the album, keep getting new details with each listen
  30. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. El mejor álbum Expand
  31. Sep 5, 2019
    10
    definitely one of the best works and lyrics that catch your mind and heart !!!! beautiful chords!!!!!!!
  32. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    So incredible, she is an absolute god. One of her best albums yet, it’s so chill yet is full of such raw emotion
  33. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    The power that the marvelous one and only, queen of soul possess. The international implications that this album holds. This album sends you on a power trip from beginning to end that no other living singer/songwriter can do that the only one and only miss Lana Del **** Rey can do.
  34. Sep 6, 2019
    9
    While this album is lyrically Lana at her finest, Jack Antonoff’s and Rick Nowell’s productions make sure to bring this album to its deserving status as a contender for Album of the year. At no point in the album does the production seem too over the top compared to Lana’s vocals and the production has made sure to embellish Lana’s voice instead of taking the attention away from it. EvenWhile this album is lyrically Lana at her finest, Jack Antonoff’s and Rick Nowell’s productions make sure to bring this album to its deserving status as a contender for Album of the year. At no point in the album does the production seem too over the top compared to Lana’s vocals and the production has made sure to embellish Lana’s voice instead of taking the attention away from it. Even when the production does seem to take the attention away, we get a masterpiece like Venice Bit*h where the psychedelic synths get their own lime light as Lana intimates her harmonies. The best track of the album is highly debatable. California is a song that even Antonoff could not hypothetically deliberately besmirch given its classic Lana formula of the poignant nostalgia compounded with her signature sadcore voice and lyrics. Cinnamon Girl with its subliminal beats and a delicately puissant outro can easily be put in the top tier of all the songs released this year. The Next Best American record, a run-away ‘Lust for life’ track is worthy of its title and coalesces the general sound of both the albums with absolute dovetail. Doing Time, a cover of the memorialized Sublime track, is sure to not fail the original and is one of the only tracks on the album that Lana has allowed herself to sing in an upbeat melody. Mariner’s Apartment Complex, the first introduction to the then-unnamed record, was and continues to be a song that encapsulates the general production of the album = music to listen to while you drive off into the sunset. Happiness is a butterfly is a track which, like Norman **** Rockwell, the title track, finds Lana at her most assertiveness taking the steering wheel of the relationship and speaking up to the subject of the songs which she, arguably, has never done in her previous records. The greatest, a standout among standouts, with the first guitar chord being struck is bound to compel the listeners to vicariously reminisce their own lives as Lana does and also have a political conscience of accepting whats happened and moving ahead with the change of times. Hope is a dangerous thing, released well before the album, is a song for the generation that has grown up to and with Lana’s repertoire. With a simple piano progression, Lana moans over the life she lives and the life she could have but ultimately resigns to the facts of life and clings on to hope, which is paradoxical to her way of life, as the only thing that has and always will be her guilt and boon. The 2 songs: Bartender and How To Disappear seem to be the only two songs that don't quote match up to the prodigal attributes of all the other songs on the record. The former inundated with references ranging from ladies of the canyon to Crosby, Stills and Nash seems lyrically too ambiguous. Ironically, she has been sober for 9 years and ascertains it in the track. But sonically, doesn't seem to fit into the sanguine and placid energy of the entire record. How to disappear, though lyrically a masterpiece, doesn't quite seem to be coherent with the production and while the live acoustic performance of the song raised hopes for the song, the production is nothing short of a let down. But, to end this review on a highly positive note, ‘Love Song’ and **** it I love you” are the last tracks on this review. Live song, with the enthralling strings and the soft piano accentuate the delicate poetry that Lana’s song-writing is. “In your car, I’m a star, and I’m burning through you” almost whispered so subtly, can only make the anticipation for the upcoming poetry book much more unbearable. And with F*ck it I love you”, the only song apart from Doin Time, spends part of its run time with mellow instrumentals and part of its run time with Lana declaring F*ck it” to the trademark Antonoff synths and strings. The song delves into dark imagery juxtaposed by neon delivered with multitudes of Lana’s vocal styles, ranging from the high note deliveries to an almost mumbling singing. Over all, the album ranks above Ultra-violence only because of the emphasis on Lana’s vocal mastery and ingenuity is much more limpid in comparison on this album. So yes, it is the most intimate, personal, mature and beautiful record on Lana’s repertoire and most definitely one of the most prolific albums in the alternate scene this year. Expand
  35. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    Maginificent, unexpected, sincere, beautiful, makes you breathless, i love it.
  36. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    Her best album to date. Period. Cohesive, beautiful, and sophisticated lyrically, this record is the hallmark of Lana's career.
  37. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    This is Lana’s most accomplished album and also showcases Jack Antonoff as an excellent collaborator and producer.
  38. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    An album that shows that Lana del Rey is the best singer and songwriter of the moment. The album manages to surpass even the iconic album Ultraviolence.
  39. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    something unreal and very beautiful
    love this! Lana is just a goddess of my heart.
  40. Sep 6, 2019
    10
    Norman **** rockwell! is very surprising and enjoyable.
    I am very like lana del rey.
  41. Sep 7, 2019
    10
    It’s captivating to stay the least. Peaked my curiosity right there on the spot. For me, this album strongly holds on to something that I’m yet to experience (which just made it more interesting) and has a magnificent sense of freedom in it. It’s truly a masterpiece.
  42. Sep 7, 2019
    10
    NFR! In my opinion her best **** album. You can really see her growth on this album. The lyrics are pure poetry.
  43. Sep 7, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Each song in this album is an experience and its vocals are so beautiful, and the production of each song is simply beautiful and lyrical. Expand
  44. Sep 7, 2019
    10
    Lyrics comes right from her soul. Personally the best album, fully composed by her, let us know how talented this woman is
  45. Sep 9, 2019
    6
    I still don't know if it's a problem but Lana always sounds the same.I listened to all songs of the album and yes,we have masterpieces like Marines Apartment Complex and Love Song but at the end I felt like I was listening to the same song on repeat.The album is far from a bad job but Lana needs to evolve.
  46. Sep 7, 2019
    10
    Lana siempre ha sabido cómo conectar conmigo con su música, y este disco no es la excepción. Es fresco y adictivo de escuchar, se siente personal e íntimo y me gusta eso, todo lo que dice Lana en sus canciones se siente honesto, real y fiel a ella misma. El mejor disco del año, no me sorprende, Lana es una verdadera artista.
  47. Sep 7, 2019
    10
    Album of the year.. there is no skip in the album. Definitely deserves a grammy.
  48. Sep 7, 2019
    9
    Uno de los mejores albumes de Lana , cada cancion tiene un mensaje para dar a la humanidad , simplemente es arte
  49. Dec 13, 2021
    10
    Lana Del Rey is large – she contains multitudes, and the way she balances and embodies them on her fifth album is nothing short of stunning.

    I love this album, but it's not my favorite of hers and yet it's big, powerful, flawless...
  50. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    ALL THE SONGS ARE MAGNIFICENT. Period. Personal faves: California, Hope, nfr
  51. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    This album is really good it made swifties mad , it is a really happy album maybe the happiest one from the whole saga, it was the most awaited album from all of them, really worth buying it
  52. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Ame el disco, realmente cada vez mejora aún más, esperemos que obtenga mejores críticas aún ❤️
  53. Sep 11, 2019
    10
    That's a brilliant album. I just can't stop listening to it! God bless America and Lana Del Rey!
  54. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is the best Lana Del Rey album ever! It's so beautiful. Buy the album on iTunes and/ or stream on Spotify.
    Cinnamon girl
    California
    Norman **** Rockwell
    Love Song
    Doin Time
    **** it I love you
    And more
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  55. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Obra de arte! Uma composição perfeita, melodias tocantes, letras demasiadamente tristes e sinceras. Lana em sua melhor obra desde Ultraviolence, sem sobra de dúvidas uma obra prima da indústria musical
  56. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    This is a masterpiece! Lana Del Rey achieved a new level on her career! Norman **** Rockwell assumed the n°2 position on my favorite albums from here, losing only to Ultraviolence, which, for me, still is the best work she has ever done!
  57. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Um álbum maravilhoso onde nós temos Lana del Rey incrivelmente bem em sua própria pele.
  58. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Lana del rey is a legend of alternative music, She's creative, the songs are excelent and at the end of the day, this is the AOTY.
  59. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Talented,brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique!
  60. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    i love this album!!!!!!! i love this album!!!!!!! i love this album!!!!!!! i love this album!!!!!!! i love this album!!!!!!!
  61. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Oh God it's so exciting to hear NFR! Lana is the best alternative artist and this new album is so exquisite.
  62. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Beautiful album, through and through. Definitely her best work, an album everyone will love!!!
  63. Sep 8, 2019
    10
    Amazing lyrical content and beautiful instrumentation with the style that only Lana can produce.
  64. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Definitivamente uma obra prima. Letras profundas e sonorodade incrivel. Uma artista que se reiventa sempre seguindo um mesmo caminho.
  65. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Constantly raising the bar for us all, and doing it flawlessly. I'd say I'm surprised, but I know who Lana is. I've seen it up close and personal. Girl, you make me so proud and I love you.
  66. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    masterpiece of an album. her legacy will live forever ... she delivered the best work of 2019
  67. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Legendary masterpiece - but I expected nothing less from the masterful Lana Del Rey.
  68. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful album
  69. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time. Best album of all the time.
  70. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Excelente aportación, como siempre ! Nunca decepciona Lana del Rey, música muy buena como siempre ....
  71. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    her second best album, before honeymoon. sonically, lyrically, visually, in every aspect perfection. timeless and classic record— only lana del rey could pull it off. period. these girls just aren’t doing it like her.
  72. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Every song here is amazing. Lana stunned again with her mind. Both melody and words are rich.
  73. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Norman F***ing Rockwell is one of the best album she's ever done, if maybe not the best one. I don't only say this because I'm a fan, I say this because never an album of hers touched me the way this one touched, and I think everyone should hear it.
  74. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Esse sem sombra de dúvidas é o melhor álbum da Lana, expressando seus anseios, medo e sonhos. Um álbum extremamente maduro e sólido cheios de rits e baladas bem mais sofisticado que todos os demais anteriores. Lana dessa vez, encontrou o substituto de Born To die!
  75. Sep 9, 2019
    8
    Great Vocals. awesome lyrics. sincere. only flaw i think is the track Bartender, the stammering was unnecessary.
  76. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    This album is stupendous. There are really no other words to describe Lana’s newest masterpiece. The title track perfectly summarizes the beautiful sounds and aesthetics one would expect from Lana. It’s almost a sin to not listen to the entire album all the way through, at least once. Every track compliments the next. It’s Lana’s best since Ultraviolence. Cinnamon Girl and The Next BestThis album is stupendous. There are really no other words to describe Lana’s newest masterpiece. The title track perfectly summarizes the beautiful sounds and aesthetics one would expect from Lana. It’s almost a sin to not listen to the entire album all the way through, at least once. Every track compliments the next. It’s Lana’s best since Ultraviolence. Cinnamon Girl and The Next Best American Record encompass the same style of sad-core pop famously originating from the Born To Die era, while songs like Norman F*cking Rockwell, Love Song, and Happiness Is A Butterfly make me reminisce the Paradise & Honeymoon eras. Venice B*tch, California, & Doin’ Time rewind the clock back to summer of ‘14, with choruses and melodies similar to those in Ultraviolence, while adding Lana’s new NFR! style of music. This album is brilliant, and worthy of a possible nomination for AOTY. Expand
  77. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Já pode descansar em paz, Ultraviolence. Temos o melhor álbum da carreira da LDR — Norman **** Rockwell!, perfeito do início ao fim.
  78. Sep 9, 2019
    10
    Lana's best album to date. Beautiful song writing and imagery that pulls on your heart strings.
  79. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Album of the year, Lana **** Del Rey is a genius!! California is my favorite! Expand
  80. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    Album of the year. Lana del Rey, You're perfect and I love you thanks for this **** album!
  81. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Perfect deusa grega, tudo muito bom e maravilhoso. Um dos melhores lançamentos do ano Expand
  82. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    Álbum coeso do começo ao fim, Del Rey se mostrou uma artista autêntica ao seu estilo mesmo depois de álbuns não tão comerciais, assim, abrindo caminho para um novo indie nunca visto antes
  83. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    Este álbum es muy bueno no solo por el genero y su arte si no que las letras de este álbum son excelentes son letras que llevan a imaginar a transportarte en diferentes mundos de acuerdo a la canción y es uno de los pocos trabajos discográficos que ofrece una buena calidad y buen trabajo respecto a letras, genero y como ya antes dicho este álbum es arte.
  84. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. COISA MAIS LINDA QUE EU JA ESCUTEI NA VIDA. ISSO É ARTISTA PORRA TE AMO LANA Expand
  85. Sep 10, 2019
    10
    Perfection - nothing really to add. Music, lyrics, coherence, videoclip, everything is dope.
  86. Sep 11, 2019
    10
    Funny how all the '0 score' reviewers have given 10 to Lover by Taylor Swift and they don't even try to hide it -- Childish fandom. Norman f***ing Rockwell! is an incredible album with nostalgic melodies and lyrics only Lana Del Rey could have written.
  87. Sep 11, 2019
    10
    Beautiful melodies, dreamy instrumentation. Props to both Lana and Jack Antonoff for such perfection. Bravo!
  88. Sep 11, 2019
    10
    I think this is my new fav album ever. Better than anything Lana have been done before. I love everything in this album. I also love Ultraviolence and BTD as hell. But NFR is a new masterpiece and deserves to be honored like it. Listen to: How to Disappear
    Norman **** Rockwell
    Mariners Apartment Complex
    Doin Time
    Venice ****

    Anyways... Steaming the whole album. Its marvelous
  89. Sep 11, 2019
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The next best american record, the apotehosis of LDR, songs of curiosity and of consequence, darkness and light, a time capsule of 2019, proof that a person cannot escape herself but she can change. Expand
  90. Sep 11, 2019
    10
    Magical intertwining of music and seductive words capable of bringing you to a parallel world. Once again, thank you Lana.
  91. Sep 12, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Cohesive, emotional and perfect. Lana del Rey served us another masterpiece. Expand
  92. Sep 12, 2019
    10
    Her best work yet! And best album of the year so far! Her most cohesive album with amazing production, vocals and lyrics on point! A masterpiece.
  93. Sep 13, 2019
    10
    NFR! exceeded all expectation. Excellent work through and through. Feels like a new and refreshing era for Lana. Start of something new, excited to see what she does next
  94. Sep 13, 2019
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The album is unique! Lana Del Rey shows her evolution and her back to the alternative rock, there's a official successor of Ultraviolence. This is the best album of 2019. I feel clearly Mazzy Star, Joan Baez and Red Hot Chilli Peppers vibes, thank you Lana. Always make beatiful music. Expand
  95. Sep 13, 2019
    10
    Um álbum mais conceitual da década. Representa muito da evolução da lana
  96. Sep 14, 2019
    10
    One of her best album !! The melodies and sounds are pure beautiful and emotional ! A masterpiece !
  97. Sep 14, 2019
    10
    The album is amazing, is simple and beautiful, I guess fans fell in love with it forever
  98. Sep 14, 2019
    10
    Best album of the decade so far. Wonderful melodies, amazing vocals and those psychedelic vibes really hit you hard. Deserves AOTY grammy.
  99. Sep 15, 2019
    10
    It brings pure joy while listening to it. Great vocals. Great lyrics. And you can notice the change of the persona of Lana from Born to die to NFR. It grew up so mature, secure and amazing as I never thought.
  100. Sep 14, 2019
    10
    O álbum traz letras mais adultas,profundas, sonoridades muito harmoniosas,traz sentimentos, Dá pra perceber o amadurecimento vivido pela persona Lana.
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87

Universal acclaim - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 28
  2. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Oct 9, 2019
    75
    Things inevitably drift, but beneath the surface in the best songs there is a toughness and a newfound resilience.
  2. Oct 2, 2019
    90
    It's a remarkably sharp pop record that retains her fascination with pop-culture iconography and the rosey simplicity of a post-war America where classic rock and blue jeans ruled and takes them to much deeper places. ... Think of it as an hour-long car ride peeling down the highway with classic rock blaring out of the radio and no real destination in mind other than where your impulsive nature might take you.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 19, 2019
    80
    A thematically rich record, heavy on mood and elegantly written in a way that positions Del Rey between Eve Babitz and Carole King. There are beguiling and evolving melodies underneath the spare piano and acoustic arrangements. [Nov 2019, p.24]