Honeymoon
Lana Del Rey's third album is her purest album-length expression, and her most artistic one. It is a dark work, darker even than Ultraviolence. While she's obviously a pop artist, Honeymoon feels as though it belongs to a larger canon of Southern California Gothic albums, and synthesizes ideas she's been vamping on from the beginning into a unified work.
With familiar themes, but more autonomy, Del Rey delivers what sounds like the perfect goodbye. Let’s hope it isn't.
Sultry singer sustains the mood of early single Video Games to dramatic effect on third LP
In a world where the biggest pop acts construct their own universe, hers could be the most distinct and untouchable.
If “beach goth” is already a musical genre taken by neo-surf rockers, then Lana Del Rey’s new album Honeymoon has given birth to “tropical noir;” all the imagery of swaying palm trees and hallucinatory California sunsets with the heightened dram
Crystalline torch songs and a baffling snatch of TS Eliot from the queen of haute trash
Lana Del Rey’s third album has an air of strict creative control, but it could be her best yet
World-weary singer ramps up the sophistication and channels Blue Velvet’s Dorothy Vallens. CD new music review by Guy Oddy