what's that story "Norma" told?

Album Rating: 2.5

man this sexy lady can sure make some boring music.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

and if this is the end i want a boyfriend

A week ago I finally got the chance to find some free time to start listening to this.
Ugh... let me format my take in numbered points because that's the easiest and makes the most sense for me:

1) MUCH better than Chemtrails for sure.
2) The individual songs themselves are generally (not all) better than those found in Norman...
BUT
3) The entire album is... hard to get through. The songs are pretty dense and heavy, and overstimulating to the senses (and that's coming from someone who eats extreme metal for breakfast). idk, it just gets too much for me after several songs in a row. Five days of listening, and I still have three more songs to go through.
Would have been nice if there was a bit more variation in the pacing so that the listener doesn't feel so overwhelmed.
To me, here the only exception to the general "style" is Dealer, which also happens to be among my favorite tracks. (but then again, I still have a few more to check out)

Overall, I agree with fog's sentiments and assessments, but ultimately the album's just not my cup of tea.

In retrospect, it now seems to me that this general turn in sound and themes that began with NFR and continues until now wasn't such a great idea.
I prefer the version of Lana from BTD up to and including LFL*.
Ironically, the media and "professional" critics only started applauding her seriously at NFR. To them, it was then she finally became "mature" and "consistent", but I'd argue she's been that way most of the prior time anyway; it's just that she rubbed too many of them the wrong way and they couldn't stand it, so they wanted to mould her to their standards. :[
Or maybe that was always the plan anyway? Start off fresh and big, to eventually wind down to this (re)tired state?

*p.s. I also like that spoken poetry book too, for some reason. It's an even more "intimate private audience" (referencing the review here) with LDR than Blue Banisters is.

Dead album?

Album Rating: 3.0

Curiously, yes kinda

Album Rating: 4.0

probably needed a negative review to get the perpetual motion going

Album Rating: 4.0

~What if someone had asked Picasso not to be sad?

Never known who he was or the man he'd become

There would be no blue period~



So profound 💓

tbh I'm not sure if what I wrote was even a "negative" assessment. I'm more confused than I am critical. Somehow after this album it's somewhat hard to imagine what the follow-up will be, IF ANY.
For some reason I am getting this ominous feeling there won't be any.

Album Rating: 3.0

this is a hard album to hate, not sure how it'd get the kinda mercilessly negative take that LDR inevitably deserves

i'm invested in her backsliding into a final career glut of Dealers and poorly considered style pastiches that pan out as too irresistibly awkward to not love. smooth tete-a-tete Lana is over

Album Rating: 4.0

i'm pretty sure she will enter a Reggaeton phase.

Album Rating: 4.0

>i'm pretty sure she will enter a Reggaeton phase.



Eh I kinda like that trap interlude

Album Rating: 4.0

i really need trap to evolve to the next thing now, like i feel there's too much trap. trap is like cricket

i'm invested in her backsliding into a final career glut of Dealers and poorly considered style pastiches that pan out as too irresistibly awkward to not love. smooth tete-a-tete Lana is over

Album Rating: 4.0

>i really need trap to evolve to the next thing now, like i feel there's too much trap. trap is like cricket



Could you elaborate? I feel I need a stronger opinion on trap than just 'eh this is nice I see why the kids like this'.

Album Rating: 4.0

trap feels like a genre that lowers the barrier to entry for novelty acts. like there's some people who excel at it, then there's some people who throw it on their record just because it's a current sound that needs to be present in a certain quantity, and then there's people who are utilizing it the way, say Mr T did with conventional rap, to have some half hearted presence in the music world

Album Rating: 4.0

Thank you! I shall hopefully use this knowledge to seem 'with it'.

Album Rating: 4.0

Lol eg, if you want to seem with it, say the exact opposite of anything I say

Album Rating: 4.0

no no my friends are hipsters

on a serious note, though: Where do you guys see LDR going next?
imho Chemtrails, despite not being good, actually sounded like a logical continuation to NFR/Violet and made sense discographically. Same for BB which also fits the discog arc.

But now...? Like I said on the last page, it really feels like a "where do we go from here?!" type of situation...