Blue Banisters
Where Lana Del Rey’s previous 2021 album *Chemtrails Over the Country Club* made no reference to the global pandemic in which it was partly created, *Blue Banisters* is steeped in it. From bringing up Black Lives Matter protests in “Text Book” to facing the loneliness of isolation during quarantine in “Black Bathing Suit,” there’s no shortage of references to the year that kept us all inside. “And if this is the end, I want a boyfriend/Someone to eat ice cream with and watch television,” she sings. When not singing about girls in summer dresses dancing with their masks off, Lana ruminates on her family. She mentions her sister Chuck in the title track and regales with tales about her parents in “Wildflower Wildfire.”
Lana Del Rey’s second album of the year is a sweeping survey of her talent as a songwriter, stripped of the aesthetic borders she often places around her work.
Lana Del Rey's Blue Banisters proves she's still capable of crafting gorgeous musical gut-punches
On her eighth record – one that subtly responds to her critics – Del Rey's voice has never sounded better
Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters is a disarmingly warm and pared-back selection of songs new and old
Lana Del Rey’s third album in just over two years marks a slight but significant change to her signature sound
A collection of sun-kissed moments and hazy memories, free from judgement and firmly rooted in place.
Del Rey’s claims that this is her most personal album yet are not quite true – it is far more elliptical and mysterious than it first appears
On her eighth album 'Blue Banisters', Lana Del Rey remains as enigmatic as ever. Read our review by Kate French-Morris
If Lana Del Rey's 2021 album Chemtrails Over the Country Club felt like the atmospheric post-script to her 2019 master statement Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Everything Lana Del Rey does is cinematic and with careful intention; she's spent so much of her career crafting and redefining personas, co...
For nearly a decade, Lana Del Rey has confessionally traced her movie script migration from the chilly shores of New York to the singed hills of Los Angeles, via miles and miles of county fair and diner-dotted heartland, winning scores of fans and plenty of detractors along her way. While still the expected summerly slice of self-mythologized Americana, Del Rey’s second album in seven months feels somehow different from the rest.
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The singer’s eighth album feels familiar, but also pushes at the edges of her usual themes
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Blue Banisters’ further fleshes out the singer’s increasingly colorful personal world. Read our review.
Blue Bannisters by Lana Del Rey Album review by Adam Fink. The full-length is now available via Universal Music and streaming services
Despite weaving relatable scenes of Zoom calls and lockdown weight gain into her distinctive aesthetic, the stylised singer remains as elusive as ever on her eighth album
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