Norman Fucking Rockwell!
| Lana Del Rey
Norman Fucking Rockwell!
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is the sixth studio album and fifth major-label record by American singer Lana Del Rey. It was released on August 30, 2019, by Polydor and Interscope Records. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
On her elegant and complex fifth album, Lana Del Rey sings exquisitely of freedom and transformation and the wreckage of being alive. It establishes her as one of America’s greatest living songwriters.
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Rolling Stone
On her thrilling sixth album, the singer’s darkly romantic California dreams can feel like epitaphs for the entire country.
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A.V. Club Music
Del Rey’s narrators on Norman Fucking Rockwell are more willing now than ever to let their guard down and be real, perhaps because they’ve realized that maintaining a blasé, cool-girl façade is exhausting.
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Vulture
Lana Del Rey Is Fully in the Driver’s Seat on Norman Fucking Rockwell.
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NME
Lana Del Rey's fifth album, 'Norman Fucking Rockwell!' contains multitudes. The way she balances and embodies them on this well-rounded record is nothing short of stunning.
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Consequence of Sound
Lana Del Rey Shines Through an American Fog on Norman Fucking Rockwell!
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The Guardian
With its classic rock references and brazen lyrics, the American’s involving fifth album proves she can do more than merely conjure up a mood.
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The Atlantic
Heavy and beautiful, the singer’s new album, Norman Fucking Rockwell, tells of women holding on in desperate times.
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Time
Norman F---ing Rockwell! Is Lana Del Rey's Darkest—And Greatest—Album Yet.
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SPIN
Lana Del Rey’s Norman Fucking Rockwell! Isn’t Afraid to Go Where Other Pop Stars Won’t.
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Vogue
All Hail Lana Del Rey’s “Screw It” Album, Norman Fucking Rockwell.
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Stereogum
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is yoga music for the apocalypse. It’s music for breathing deep, for coming to terms with the idea that we’re all spinning out of control and into unsustainable chaos.
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Crack Magazine
On Norman Fucking Rockwell! she invites us to escape with her, just for an hour: to stretch out on the plains and think about love and how life used to be. You go there with her, you lie back, shut your eyes. And you think, “there are much worse ways to go.”
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Interview Magazine
Lana Del Rey is going to save the world.
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Vice
On 'Norman Fucking Rockwell,' she eases in, stretches out, and continues to fill the artistic space she created for herself on 'Born to Die.'
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Muumuse
Despite operating relatively outside of pop culture, and despite not being a pop star (even though she’s treated like one by Stan Twitter), she has, all hyperbole aside, successfully paved a path entirely of her own and positioned herself as one of the defining voices of the modern American generation.
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Slant Magazine
The album doesn’t so much subvert an idealistic notion of the American dream as perform a postmortem of it.
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Sputnik Music
Great.
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Brooklyn Vegan
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’ is her most uncompromising yet.
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Highsnobiety
Lana Del Rey’s ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ Is Her Greatest Album Yet.
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Entertainment Weekly
On her sixth album, the singer digs deep into the atmospherics.
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Popdust
Lana Del Rey Is the Angelic Voice of the Apocalypse.
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Soundblab
Lana Del Rey has finally made the most important album of her career.
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Independent
The album is sultry and soporific, sitting somewhere between the minimalist trip-hop of Del Rey’s early days, and the scuzzy desert rock she has toyed with over the years.
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Idolator
It demands your time and, occasionally, your patience, but the reward is staggering.
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Paste Magazine
NFR! is an Instant Folk-Pop Classic.
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Daily Bruin
Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ is Lana Del Rey’s subtle evolution into striking realism.
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DIY Mag
It’s Lana Del Rey’s world, we’re just living in it.
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Uproxx
‘Norman F*cking Rockwell’ Is A Sprawling California Masterpiece.
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Northern Transmissions
Lyrically and musically it all gels together effortlessly, creating the ultimate impact emotionally and one that will be soundtracking all of our own unique highs and lows for years to come.
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American Songwriter
A unique and fascinating tableau as a whole.
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The Muse
In Del Rey’s music, people fall in love at the end of the world, because that’s where we are.
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The Interns
‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ Is Fucking Incredible.
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The Ringer
Lana Del Rey Is the Benevolent Spirit Guide of Our Times.
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The Breeze
'Norman Fucking Rockwell' is Lana Del Rey's best album yet.
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Forbes
Lana Del Rey’s Dazzling ‘Norman Rockwell’ Album Is Her Best Yet.
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Pop Matters
Lana Del Rey Brings SoCal Ennui to the Masses with the Astonishing 'Norman Fucking Rockwell'.
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Mic
Lana Del Rey’s America is steeped in imagery, in archetypes, which she’s used not only to build her own self-referencing world but to focus a lens on the paradoxes and absurdities of modern life.
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Dazed Digital
Exposes the realities of heterosexual relationships.
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Forge Today
Demands your attention to her striking album that ebbs and flows between whimsical, relatable, heartfelt and in some places, surprisingly uplifting.
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The Face
Lana Del Rey's most stripped-back album is a seductive but foreboding end-of-summer soundtrack.
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Newsweek
'NORMAN F**KING ROCKWELL' IS A MOOD.
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The Spectator
Great title – shame about the songs.
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Gold Derby
The whole record is delightful.
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NPR
At its best, her music absorbs and disorients.
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Yahoo!
Lana Del Rey Shines Through an American Fog on Norman Fucking Rockwell!
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Frieze
This ‘24/7 Sylvia Plath’ blinks, sputters, glows.
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City Pages
Lana Del Rey hits her goddamn stride with 'Norman Fucking Rockwell'.
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Atwood Magazine
With NFR I feel like she’s taking the sound of Ultraviolence, mixing it with the joy and confidence of Lust for Life, and making it all more organic and grounded.
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The Rice Thresher
A golden relfection of modern American musings on love, power and growing up. Rockwell would approve.
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Highway Queens
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is never short of sublime. If this really is the end of the world as we know it, then thank fuck we have music as good as this to help us feel fine.
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Brown Daily Herald
Her artistic identity and persona have steadily been built upon the same self-aware glamor and aesthetic complexity for which “NFR!” is lauded.
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MusicOMH
This is probably her finest record since Born To Die, and this new partnership with Antonoff ensures that her next move will much anticipated.
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Glide Magazine
LANA DEL REY REMAINS GLAMOROUS AND COOLLY DETACHED WITH SPRAWLING LP ‘NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL!’
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Billboard
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is just what we needed to close out summer.
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LONDON IN STEREO
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is a graceful portrayal of the singer’s new-found strength and stability, marking what is undoubtedly her greatest record to date.
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The Diamondback
Del Rey’s voice is the greatest it’s ever been.
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Vanity Fair
When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll.
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FLOOD Magazine
Del Rey and her noble Norman Rockwell-ian fantasies have moved past their original dreaminess and onto something harder and more real. Brava.
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Hyperallergic
Her latest album proves she deserves the respect of legends like Joni Mitchell and Carole King.
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Clash Music
An exquisite return from the icon.
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Setlist.fm
Norman Fucking Rockwell! is yet another milestone for Lana.
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The Lamron
Lana Del Rey’s sixth album smooth, sad with complex themes.
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Rock Sins
A mature album full of growth and layers.
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Epigram
An undeniable female figure at the forefront of modern music.
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The Needle Drop
Lana Del Rey improves as a songwriter by leaps and bounds on NFR.
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The Fader
Bizarre brilliance.
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ACRN
Norman Rockwell, the album’s namesake, painted pictures of everyday American life and shared them with America. Del Rey is doing the same, singing from the heart and painting pictures of herself – sometimes at her most vulnerable.
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Get Alternative
She’s far less prolific than Rockwell, but they both create art that mirrors reality – even if it means being a damper.
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The Edge
It's Lana Del Rey's best album yet - through its somber, minimalist production, Lana's vocals shine through to serenade us with poignant extracts of different loves - from bartenders to manchildren.
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411 Mania
Make no mistake, Lana hasn’t suddenly transformed into an unguarded truth teller in the Mount Eerie or Angel Olsen vein, but slithers of light are seeping through the cracks in her glorious, gold laced, art deco exterior.
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Vada Magazine
Lana Del Rey is a thoroughly accomplished musician and one of the most interesting, and resilient, artists that is currently making music.
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Mystic Sons
Sultry singer gets back to her best on sixth full-length.
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Vinyl Chapters
Lana Del Rey returns with new record Norman Fucking Rockwell!, once again treating us to self-assured but damaged ballads with a cinematic presence.
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Daily Nexus
Queen of Summertime Sadness Strikes Again with ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’
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The Musical Hype
Norman Fucking Rockwell just might be the best album of Lana Del Rey’s career.
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Let It Happen Music Blog
On Norman Fucking Rockwell, the caricature of Lana Del Ray has never felt more accessible.
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The Ithacan
Lana Del Rey offers somber self-reflection in album.
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The Student Playlist
Never before have Lana Del Rey’s various aesthetics sounded more genuine, and in service of a singular sentiment, than on ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’
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The Irish Times
Norman F**king Rockwell, the singer-songwriter's new album, is packed with fiery lyrics to the sound of Laurel Canyon
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4 out of 5 Reviews
Happy, comforted, confident; Norman Fucking Rockwell! sounds like a new beginning from start to finish.
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The Mic Magazine
Lana Del Rey is the epitaph of melancholy, glamour and of course the American dream and its dreamers.
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Spectrum Culture
Hype or no, art or artifice, it’s nonetheless well worth the experience.
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L'Officiel
Even if (hopefully) it turns out that the only end arriving is that of summer, the project remains a must-listen.
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Sound Bite Reviews
Overall this is a good album and the move towards 60s psychedelia, soft rock and alternative pop is a good fit for Lana as she’s been moving in that direction for a while.
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C-Ville
The musical payoff ain’t quite there for me, but I gotta say it’s pretty darn L.A. the way Del Rey unites the deep and shallow, wrapping vignettes of emotional, even existential, weight in glossy paper and bows.
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