Honeymoon
| Lana Del Rey
Honeymoon
Honeymoon is the fourth studio album and third major-label record by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey. It was released on September 18, 2015, by Polydor Records and Interscope Records, and was produced by Del Rey alongside longtime collaborators Rick Nowels and Kieron Menzies. The album marked a departure from the more guitar-driven instrumentation of Del Rey's previous album Ultraviolence and a return to the baroque pop of Born to Die and Paradise. Lyrically, the album touches on themes of tortured romance, bitterness, lust, escapism, and violence. Upon release, Honeymoon received mostly positive from music critics, appearing on the 2015 best albums lists of many publications. At the time of its release, several critics considered the album Del Rey's best album to date. The album debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200, selling 116,000 units in first week, and peaking at number one in Australia, Greece and Ireland. The album was supported by the release of two singles: "High by the Beach", and "Music to Watch Boys To". -Wikipedia
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Vice
Presumbly anybody who thinks her shtick has stagnated is too embarrassed to pay attention, because without doubt it's evolved. Subtly, OK, but the slowing tempos at least are hard to miss, and they go with the subtle part: the changing ways she's portrayed both herself and the objects of her affection over the past four years.
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Spin
Upon first listen, Honeymoon’s languorous pace and muted instrumentation can inspire yearning for the singer’s early, more indelibly varied smashes.
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Rollingstone
A honeymoon with Lana Del Rey is more sticky than sweet: Get ready to enter a world of truly tortured romance, complete with enough bitterness, lust and violence for a one-woman revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Pitchfork
Accordingly, Honeymoon is a dark work, darker even than Ultraviolence, and the pall does not lift for its 60-plus minutes.
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NME
Three albums in, the challenge of ‘Honeymoon’ is not only to reconnect with the audience who bought 'Born To Die' but also to see how far she can push that character before it becomes a caricature. It's the album on which she can widen her world or typecast herself for good, but the words "very different" were an exaggeration – bad boys, sadness, mortality and the myth of California are still on the menu, even if its crisp beats snap the album back to 2015.
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The Independent
Honeymoon finds Del Rey reverting, after the more atomised, individual characters of last year’s Ultraviolence, to a composite persona closer to the dissolute subject of her Born to Die debut.
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The Guardian
The fruition of Honeymoon smacks of strict creative control: there was minimal press – one notable interview with friend/superfan James Franco – the album’s public playback took place at Urban Outfitters, and the production team was confined to Del Rey herself, long-time engineer Kieron Menzies and Ultraviolence/Born to Die producer Rick Nowels.
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Entertainment Weekly
All of this makes Honeymoon a fun album to think about. The problem is that it’s slightly less fun to listen to.
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The Daily Telegraph
Honeymoon, Del Rey's third album, is a narcissistic study in unhappiness. It is an album of sighs and whispers, vocals subtly layered until multiple voices blend into one soft croon, melodies lazily unwinding like a narcoleptic dream amid decaying synths, lonely echoing guitar lines, strings shimmering in a heat haze and drum patterns so restrained that they are almost embarrassed to draw attention to themselves.
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AllMusic
Call Honeymoon the third installment in a trilogy if you will but there's no indication Lana Del Rey will put her doomed diva persona to rest after this album.
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AnyDecentMusic?
Fourth studio album from the singer-songwriter, including a cover of Nina Simone's "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"
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Metacritic
The third full-length release for the pop artist was produced with Kieron Menzies and Rick Nowels.
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