Chemtrails over the Country Club: What the critics are saying about Lana Del Rey’s new album

Sign up to Roisin O’Connor’s free weekly newsletter Now Hear This for the inside track on all things music Get our Now Hear This email for free Get our Now Hear This email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. – which comes after a year of controversies surrounding Del Rey’s comments on social media, including the claim that she was “changing the world” with her music. She sketches a backstory and then tells you how it all feels.” The Times awarded the album four stars and praised Del Rey’s “plaintive songwriting”, while NME gave it five stars and commented: “Lana Del Rey is at the peak of her game – just don’t expect her to come down anytime soon.” In a four-star review, critic Kate Solomon wrote for the i Paper: “ has always been one for a lyric that sounds as if it has been ripped from my rough note book circa 2002, but here they are couched in gorgeous harmonies and beguiling musical through-lines dissipating like vapour as soon as you register them.” In a more mixed three-star review, The Guardian’s Alexis Petredis commented: “Chemtrails Over the Country Club does what it does exceptionally well. How long she can keep inhabiting it before that world feels confined is another question.” Pitchfork gave the album a score of 7.5, in a review that said of her song “Wild at Heart”: “For those who found solace in Norman F***ing Rockwell’s sincerity – that quality that made her less of a fabulist and more of a protagonist – ‘ Wild at Heart’ represents the Lana myth at its most hard-boiled. The references are Lynchian, but only at a slant: There is nothing of Laura Dern and Nicolas Cage’s skull-crushing vim from the auteur’s movie by the same name, but the soapy storyline does smack of the film’s strangely glib tenderness.” Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up Enjoy unlimited access to 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Sign up now for a 4 month free trial Sign up It concluded: “There is a lot of cigarette smoking, peripatetic wandering, and firm declarations of being seductively f***ed-up.