Chemtrails Over the Country Club

If Lana took more time on this and combined it with the best ideas from Blue Bannisters and Ocean Boulevard, she'd have the greatest album of the 21st century.

But who am I to tell Lana what to do, when she's in inspired, inspirational, genius goddess with an immaculate voice and genuine standout personality in pop music.

Fun to read all the very negative reviews. Foo Fighters fans unsure what to make of autistic women.

Okay, so this is going to be a biased one. Probably my most biased review yet.
Firstly, I have to say, that i think this is a record, where the highs are super high, and the lows are kinda sounding like b-sides. With that out of the way.... I am not the biggest Lana fan ever, this is her only album of hers i absolutely LOVE. She has other amazing records, but this one stuck with me ever since it came out. And now the gushing:

THIS is the album that made me fall in love with hi-fi. This is where it all started. I got my Sennheiser HD600s, had them for a few weeks, they sounded good. But the level of quality that this record has, mixing, recording-wise is just phenomenal in my opinion.

If we don't even look at the lyrics, which i actually rarely do, the title track and breaking up slowly have been stuck in my head since 2021, and i have a hard time thinking they would ever leave it.

Not a flawless record, but easily one of my favorites of all time.

Not bad nor great

Some haunting tones. Better and different than I was thinking it would be, 3

I never really got into Lana. This was alright, but not really my thing. It had flashes of above average-ness. Revisiting this at some point may not be a bad idea.

Side note: is it weird that When We Fall Asleep Where Do We Go? isn’t on this list?

I have always liked what I've heard of Lana Del Rey, though I wouldn't really consider myself a fan. I've never heard this album but I basically know what to expect I think.
Four songs in and so far all of these songs sound the same. She has a great voice but I want to hear her actually sing. I realized that all I've heard from her she just kind of does this breathy speaking thing. It's cool but maybe open up a bit once in a while. As a whole this album is pretty boring. It never takes off or goes anywhere, it's 11 songs that all have the same structure and tempo. It's a shame because I know that Lana Del Rey is capable of better. 2.25/5

I like her voice and some of the vocal melodies, but it's just bland. I feel like there are other records by her that deserve a spot on this list way more. It's not that it's bad, just bland compared to other stuff by her.

Such a fragile voice

This is an interesting inclusion for the list. It's been about 5 years now, so I have the perspective of some time that a lot of the top reviews didn't. I can say that none of these songs are in Lana's top streams on Spotify, in case that surprises you.
This album is fine, but I didn't hear anything extraordinary on my listen. I can hear that the sound is a bit of a departure for LDR, so I give her credit there. I think the vibe was probably appropriate for the pandemic (or just barely post-pandemic) world at the time and that might have skewed some of the critical reviews. In any case, I don't feel like I'll be revisiting this one often (ever).

Her voice isn’t bad I guess, but this was just boring.

😴

I'm no expert but I'm fairly sure even Lana fans consider this a middling album.

Never have I ever wanted to listen to an album on mute before, but here we are.

0.5/5.0: Absolutely Intolerable

if you played me any one of these songs i think id really enjoy it. if you played two back to back id assume this was one really long song. there is very little variation between these songs and the slow tempo makes them feel like they drag on forever.

Sanitised, soulless shite! The exact same "deep" ballad repeated ad-nauseam for however long I managed, all specifically engineered for soundtracking teenage girls' TikTok reels. A sad, sad waste of a space in the book and of my time.

Good vibes when she's not singing high notes.

u prvoj pjesmi (bleh) spominju se dva katastrofalna američka benda koja sam morao slušati zbog ove stranice: white stripes i kings of leon... super mudseter za ostatak albuma... (koji je ipak u konačnici nešto podnošljiviji od albumâ navedenih debila)

ovaj album tipična je, dosadna i preproducirana pop-bezvezarija koju je napisao i producirao džek čifutkov, čovjek koji stoji iza gotovo svih suvremenih pop senzacija, pišući im dosadne i predvidive pop pjesmuljke. takav je i ovaj album, nevjerojatno dosadan, neoriginalan i prije svega gotovo u potpunosti lišen bilo kakve duše. šteta, jer del rey stvarno ima neloš glas. kao najmanje lošu pjesmu izdvojio bih »breaking up slowly«, sve ostalo je za bacit, osim možda posljednje stvari, obrade džoni mičel. dat ću velikodušno labuda, iako bih najradije dao kečinu jer ovaj album predstavlja problem golemog monopola na suvremenoj (američkoj, ali zbog njihove kulturne dominacije svjetskoj) glazbenoj sceni, gdje gotovo sve popularne pjesme piše svega šačičica odavna uguženih ljudi

Born To Die was right there.

Jeg syns det startet litt tregt og med litt mye pustesang, men det vokste på meg og avslutta knallsterkt.

I’ve tried to get into Lana Del Rey in the past and I just don’t get it. Not that it’s bad, she’s clearly a good songwriter and singer, but listening to her music does absolutely nothing for me.

There was like 20 seconds in the second half of Dance Till We Die where drums come in and I started thinking there could be something here, but they quickly disappear again and the song returns to the same boring, melancholic drone.