“All roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries,” she sings dreamily, comparing her adopted home of California to her own body. The catchiest song on the album is “Arcadia,” about a mythical city that exists in the same primitive space as the soul. Blue Banisters is more abstract, harder to process, and much more introspective. But upon listening to the album - a diffuse collection of prose poems set to, largely, piano accompaniment - it’s clear she only handed us binoculars after smudging the lenses with vaseline.Įarlier this year, Del Rey released Chemtrails Over The Country Club, a buoyant and melodic album with lyrics that felt inspired by the old Kerouac notion of the American road trip as spiritual cleanse. The last thing Lana Del Rey wanted us to know before retiring her Instagram account several weeks ago was that Blue Banisters, her seventh major-label studio album, tells her story “and does pretty much nothing more.” The note provides an unusual amount of clarity for Del Rey, whose typical album rollouts practically require a degree in cryptography.
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