Lana del Rey
Chemtrails over the Country Club - Polydor 2021
Tracks: 1. White Dress / 2. Chemtrails Over the Country Club / 3. Tulsa Jesus Freak / 4. Let Me Love You Like a Woman / 5. Wild at Heart / 6. Dark But Just a Game / 7. Not All Who Wander Are Lost / 8. Yosemite / 9. Breaking Up Slowly / 10. Dance Till We Die / 11. For Free
Comments:
I have given this album many chances to convince me of its qualities, but I still feel it never comes up running. Well, there are some quite good songs that, which in the right conjunction with good songs in a more upbeat arrangements, probably might have stood reasonably strong. Unfortunately, all the songs on "Chemtrails over the Country Club" are at a slow pace where the variation mostly goes from slow to very slow.
The honorable / good songs for me are: "White Dress", which in its airy and very slow arrangement brings to mind Big Star's "Sister Lovers" album. The title song is also quite good - funny to the drums go solo in the end.
"Let me Love you Like a Woman" must be one of the candidates for an album highlight - a song that could have fit in well with "Honeymoon". My favorite, though, probably is "Yosemite", which is one of the few songs where an acoustic guitar is allowed to step forward.
Without being significant, "Wild at Heart" and "Dark, but just a Game" are also OK. The rest is more or less for oblivion - unfortunately.
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