Name: Honeymoon [2 LP]
Brand: Interscope (USA)
SKU: 70551380
Price: 67.59 SGD
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Honeymoon [2 LP]

Rating

Album: Honeymoon [2 LP]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Honeymoon	More Info...	0:06
2)	Music to Watch Boys To	More Info...	0:05
3)	Terrence Loves You	More Info...	0:05
4)	God Knows I Tried	More Info...	0:04
5)	High By the Beach	More Info...	0:04
6)	Freak	More Info...	0:05
7)	Art Deco	More Info...	0:05
8)	Burnt Notion (Interlude)	More Info...	0:01
9)	Religion	More Info...	0:05
10)	Salvatore	More Info...	0:04
11)	The Blackest Day	More Info...	0:06
12)	24	More Info...	0:05
13)	Swan Song	More Info...	0:05
14)	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood	More Info...	0:03

Album: Honeymoon [2 LP]
#	Song Title		Time
	Disc 1
1)	Honeymoon	More Info...	0:06
2)	Music to Watch Boys To	More Info...	0:05
3)	Terrence Loves You	More Info...	0:05
4)	God Knows I Tried	More Info...	0:04
5)	High By the Beach	More Info...	0:04
6)	Freak	More Info...	0:05
7)	Art Deco	More Info...	0:05
8)	Burnt Notion (Interlude)	More Info...	0:01
9)	Religion	More Info...	0:05
10)	Salvatore	More Info...	0:04
11)	The Blackest Day	More Info...	0:06
12)	24	More Info...	0:05
13)	Swan Song	More Info...	0:05
14)	Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood	More Info...	0:03

Performer Notes

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. Over the course of three albums, Lana Del Rey hasn't so much expanded her delicately sculpted persona as she has refined it, removing anything extraneous to her exquisite ennui. Honeymoon doesn't drift or float, it marks time, sometimes swelling with a suggestion of impending melodrama but often deflating to just an innervated pulse. Apart from the syncopated chorus on "High on the Beach," any lingering element of the hip-hop affectations of Born to Die have been banished and so have the shade and light Dan Auerbach brought to Ultraviolence, a record that feels cinematic in comparison to Honeymoon. What's left behind is the essence of Lana Del Rey: iconic images of days of Los Angeles passed, all plasticized and stylized, functioning as lighthouses in stoned, sad daydreams. Mood reigns over all on Honeymoon -- melodies and tempos certainly aren't prioritized over feel; all the originals are purposefully languid, which is partially why the Nancy Sinatra sample on "Terrence Loves You" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a cover allegedly in the vein of Nina Simone's original but bearing an organ out of the Animals, stick -- but underneath the dragging beats and austere arrangements, there's something approaching triumph. Where Lana Del Rey seemed weighted down by existential sorrow on her first two albums, Honeymoon seems comfortingly melancholic and that's the truest sign that it is the fullest execution of Lana Del Rey's grand plan yet. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Professional Reviews

Billboard - "Under the cover of midnight, Del Rey has been exploring big ideas about eroticism, drugs, myth, the empty promise of YOLO, what it means to be a woman, and the American soul."

NME (Magazine) - "An intoxicating listen, HONEYMOON is designed for the red neon glow of a smoky cabaret bar, a Californian answer to the chanson tradition."