Chemtrails Over the Country Club

Enjoyed this, just not my favorite from Lana

Very cozy

I'm not mad about this album being included in this list. But it's slow as hell. Sounds nice and good but just too damn slow and sad.

She always comes across like she has no respect for her fans and this album wasn't that interesting.

Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over the Country Club
Rating: ★★★★☆

Lana Del Rey has always lived in that liminal space between dream and memory, and Chemtrails Over the Country Club might be her most weightless drift through that world. This isn’t an album that grabs you by the collar. It’s more like someone opening a window on a warm evening and letting the curtains breathe—soft, slow, unhurried. And somehow, the melodies stick anyway.

What struck me most is how beautiful this record is without trying to be monumental. These songs don’t go for the jugular; they don’t even pretend to. Instead they shimmer at the edges, setting a mood that sneaks under your skin only after you’ve stopped paying attention. Her vocals sit like fog over a quiet landscape, and the whole thing floats in this hazy, late-afternoon light. It’s perfect for focused work or a calm walk when you need your brain to downshift.

Is it a deep, soul-stirring, life-reorienting album? No. And that’s fine. Not every record needs to be a revelation to earn its keep. This one excels at atmosphere: calming, cohesive, borderline hypnotic. It’s an album I’ll keep close for the times when I need something steady and beautiful in the background—when I want the world to feel just a little softer.

A four feels exactly right: lovely, absorbing, memorable in its own quiet way… but not quite a five, which is reserved for the rare records that shake something loose inside you. This one doesn’t shake. It glides. And it glides beautifully.

Am worried Lana is going to go full "trad-wife" loon, but absolutely love, love, LOVE her voice. Too soon for the list though no?

Hard to put my finger on why, but this one doesn’t grab me. I was pretty bored throughout.

This is #day428 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… if this book is about albums you must hear before you die, then this one clearly isn't. I do have a sentiment toward another of her records, Ultraviolence, since it contains a song that soundtracked me and my then-future wife's relationship, but that's about it. So, not giving it a 1, I'll award an extra star for that sentiment. This is a 2 out of 5. Looking forward to #day429.

The Good: We get to visit the country club!
The Bad: We don’t play golf…
The Ugly: It seems that nobody does as their all stoned…

I’d written an entire review on this album the day I was listening to it, yet, somehow, it seems that it did not save it…
So, here’s the recap of my review in note form:

Feels like I’m at a mall.
Don’t want to buy anything.
Not hungry either.
Wanna go home and play something totally different.
Nothing wrong with the voice, or production…

Dimery, why the F do we need to listen to this, and countless other bland albums that really won’t make us feel better?

2 1/2* upgraded as the voice didn’t want me to hurt something...

Taylor Swift if she made music for 16 year olds rather than 13 year olds.

Pretty strong writing and intricate composition for what is essentially pop-ified music. It's a quandary that a lot of albums on this list (respect the more modern ones) are "worth listening to before I die" because they were enormously successful...and this influential. But, they were designed by committee to be that way. Not to say that Lana del Rey isn't a wild talent or that this album is bad. Merely to say that, if this was Wanda Del Reuben without the star power, it'd be fine. It would not be something on this list. About 30% of the albums here feel, I don't know, recursive? Self-referential in their credentialing?

"See, I'm worth it! Says so because of who I am! It's on the label!"

But, I just want to hear great news music I have never been exposed to. This list has also given me plenty of that. This album isn't it. Still good though.

Suppose I'm just a year into this and giving every album a full listen every day is tough some days. I won't give Lana short shrift here though. Even though it's overproduced for my taste her essence still pushes through the caked on industry nonsense and kind of saves it for me. Good album.

This is one that shows my glaring lack of knowledge about new music. I remember a few years ago when LDR was announced for Glastonbury there was talk that she was too pop for the festival. This was the only time I’ve ever heard of her so when this generated I was expecting something along the lines of Katy Perry or Britney. I was very wrong.

I can’t really fault this. I enjoyed every song and her voice is brilliant. Maybe if I’m nitpicking, while I did enjoy every song, there isn’t that track that I absolutely love. Then again I’ve only listened to it once so something might grow on me later.

Top Track - Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Arrastado e enfadonho, apesar de seu instrumental caprichado, especialmente as partes vocais que soam teatralmente "melosas". Fraco!

Lana Del Rey is very attractive and has a great voice. Until now, I had only heard individual songs by her. Now there is a relatively new album. I am not sure why this particular album of hers appears on the list. Somehow, it was rather thin and boring. Lana Del Rey has made better recordings. 3/5

Chemtrails Over the Country Club
I don’t really know much about Lana Del Rey, only the name and the odd song on the telly and radio, but I really enjoyed this, bits of Kate Bush, Fiona Apple and Tori Amos but with a more conventional pop style with some lovely country accents, and nice polished, atmospheric sheen.

The first 5 or so songs in particular are great, White Dress builds to a lovely chorus, the title track, like many of the songs, has a nice, sombre and subdued atmosphere. Tulsa Jesus Freak is very good in a breathy, percussive way with another nice build. Let Me Love You Like a Woman is my stand out, one of those great songs that sounds like it’s always existed. Dark But Just a Game is a lovely bit of pop music with a nicely minor key shimmer to it.

I like Yosemite and Dark Till We Die in the back half, the folkiness of the former and jazziness of the latter are a nice break from the prevailing sound of the album. And the cover of For Free is very good, another downcast and subdued atmosphere.

It doesn’t always to vary much from the piano with country-ish guitar licks template, but it works well, it doesn’t seem to get out of 2nd gear, but it never feels like it needs to, there are enough little pop hooks and moments that stop it feeling dirge-like and it’s a very enjoyable album.

Despite a bit of a tail off after the first half, there’s more than enough good stuff on it to tip it to a 4
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Playlist submission: Let Me Love You Like a Woman

I’m familiar with a few of her albums, but I must have skipped this one. I think she’s a little of a one-trick pony, but it worked for me here.

I have another hypocritical conundrum.
A few days ago I had a Sinead O'Connor album and I called it slow and boring. It.was. I should by rights say the same about this?
And even worse she played the diva at Glastonbury last year, turned up over half hour late and got the plug pulled pissing off everyone who waited for her.
But no. There's something about LDR I like. I don't know why. She has a dreamy voice and
I like her songs. And having seen her live I like her act too.
She's been called in some reviews a one trick pony. But I like her trick.
4.

Lana del rey belongs on the list of 1001 artists whose music is used for torture at guantanamo bay

I didn't really care for the whispery breathy style of singing, and wondered if I was going to get through the album during the 1st song. None of the songs really captured my attention.

Melancholic voice in every song, but a solid album