That track also finds Del Rey sounding the most emotional she ever has, almost screaming her way through her lines: “ I don’t wanna live /I don’t wanna give you nothing/Cos you never give me nothing back”.

There are songs like the ‘Mr Brightside’-referencing ‘Thunder’ that were written with members of The Last Shadow Puppets, with whom she formed a friendship band in 2017, while Miles Kane takes the reins on the jazzy ‘Dealer’. Instead, it focuses largely on the depth of the piano, only really veering on ‘Interlude – The Trio’, which marries Ennio Morricone’s ‘The Trio’ with trap beats, and ‘If You Lie Down With Me’s horn-filled Americana.įor all her media drama after the release of ‘Chemtrails…’, this album – Del Rey’s eighth – largely seems to have its focus on friends and family.

Perhaps that’s because it’s a collection of both older songs and new material – some of these tracks (Nectar Of The Gods’, ‘If You Lie Down With Me’) date back to 2013 and could have been included on her 2014 record ‘Ultraviolence’. ‘Blue Banisters’ doesn’t continue the Laurel Canyon folk sound of ‘Chemtrails…’ or 2019’s ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’, though. If you found the experimental vocal work of ‘Chemtrails…’ and that record’s ‘White Dress’ too divisive, you’ll be satisfied here. It’s a common theme throughout the album, her vocals on the likes of the string and trumpet-laden ‘Arcadia’ and the title track elevating the feeling in her words to even greater heights. “ You don’t know me any better than they do, baby,” she sings on ‘Black Bathing Suit’, later seeming to reference the controversy she found herself in earlier this year over comments she made about Donald Trump that she felt were taken out of context: “ And what I never said, why there’s a price on my head.”Īs she sings that sentiment, her voice sounds phenomenal – the richest, warmest and most stunning it ever has. There are warnings and moments where Del Rey brushes off some of the charges that have been levelled against her, and justifications of the way she operates. These days, it’s her main vehicle to do so – last month, she deactivated all of her social media accounts to focus on “some different endeavours” that “require privacy and transparency”. ‘Rock Candy Sweet’ might now be ‘Blue Banisters’, and it might only be arriving in October rather than either of its previous summer release dates, but it does in part subtly respond to some of the criticisms Del Rey has faced over her career, and in recent months. Accused of building a career on cultural appropriation and glamorising domestic abuse in her lyrics, she took to her Instagram Story with a promise: “I will continue these thoughts on my next record on June 1 titled ‘Rock Candy Sweet’,” she wrote. After the release of ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ in March, Lana Del Rey had some words for the media.

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