STORY Lana Del Rey Will be Your Mirror: Concert Review “She’s a pop music original full-stop, and there are not nearly enough of those around.” With Ultraviolence, Del Rey has found new synergy between the character she presents to the world and the content of the songs… sounds tragic and beautiful - darkly shaded ballads are what she was created to make, and this album is nothing but, a Concept Album from a Concept Human,” calling her singularity sui generis. He says, “She’s become a screen onto which we project our desire and/or loathing. If you’re looking for “authenticity” in Lana Del Rey, Pitchfork‘s Mark Richardson suggests you’ve come to the wrong place. No one else sounds like her.” He calls the album “a kind of willfully woozy series of contradictions that combine to create a convincing argument.” … Musically and lyrically, Del Rey possesses a pure kernel of individualism that’s not only admirable, but worthy of celebration. Times‘ Randall Roberts claims, in his three- (out of four) star review, Ultraviolence “preaches a cut-throat approach to finding and retaining bliss. Bill Harford from Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut … Ultraviolence is the masked bacchanalia that finally unleashes the full potential lurking beneath the hype.” In his A-review, he says Stanley Kubrick - who adapted Andrew Burgess‘ dystopian fantasy A Clockwork Orange, from where the album presumably gets its title - would have “loved Del Rey … a highly stylized vixen who romanticizes fatalism to near-pornographic levels, creating fantastically decadent moments of film noir melodrama.” He goes on to say, “Del Rey’s dark urges - for love, for money, for pure pleasure - don’t evoke the Clockwork droogs as much as they do Tom Cruise‘s Dr. This time around, Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach is producing, and his “back-to-basics rock ‘n’ roll aesthetic serves these tracks well … a more sedate take on the Born to Die template, lightening the orchestrations, ditching the hip-hop beats, and presenting Lana as a perpetually scorned pop-noir fugitive - part Neko Case, part Katy Perry.”Īs always, though, the pouty diva, offering a blank facade for the rest of us to fill in our own desires, has polarized the critics.Ĭount Entertainment Weekly‘s Kyle Anderson as one of her admirers.

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