“Her second album of the year is dense and abstract, turning inward and finding solace in sisterhood”
“After the release of ‘Chemtrails Over The Country Club’ in March, Lana Del Rey had some words for the media. 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. ‘Rock Candy Sweet’ might now be ‘Blue Bani”
“Lana Del Rey’s second album of the year is a sweeping survey of her talent as a songwriter, stripped of the aesthetic borders she often places around her work.”
“Lana Del Rey’s Blue Banisters is a disarmingly warm and pared-back selection of songs new and old”
““Most men don’t want a woman with a legacy,” asserts Lana Del Rey on the title track of her eighth album. Her sharp eye, tired of gazing on archetypal bad boys or her own tragic poses, is trained on that legacy now. In 2020 she published her first poetry book, and this, her second record in seven months, will, she has promised, “tell my story”. Take that with a pinch of salt: Del Rey was doing aut”
“Blue Banisters sounds more slapped together than Lana's past two LPs.”
“Blue Banisters feels like such a personal Lana album. As a longtime fan, I really love how vulnerable and unfiltered she sounds here. “Arcadia,” “Thunder,” “Dealer,” and “Sweet Carolina” are some of my favorites, and there’s something really comforting about the whole record. It’s definitely not my favorite Lana album, but I still find myself coming back to it. Her music has been part of so many chapters of my life, and this album feels like another one of those quiet, personal chapters.”
“another misunderstood masterpiece on lana’s discography, she took all of her hate and made it poetry, sometimes people can’t get real art…”
