The guitar acts as a perfect metaphor for the lyrical frustration of not being able to be heard by the man she loves, being drowned out by a beautifully tragic mess. “Shades of Cool”, for example, sees Del Rey’s vocals drowned out by a muted screaming electric guitar in an epic final minute of an otherwise airy song. The relationship between production and lyric is complex, with meticulously crafted melodies and instrumentation reflecting-or beautifully opposing-the ill-fated themes. Produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, Ultraviolence has replaced the bombastic string and melodramatic orchestral climaxes of the earlier album with pulsing guitar riffs, echoing drums, and smooth layers of Del Rey’s confident, poised vocals.Īlbum opener “Cruel World” sets the tone for the rest of the record-it’s a slow burning song with purposely imperfect singing that forces the listener to experience the scarred world that Del Rey represents. Upon first listen, Lana Del Rey’s new album Ultraviolence is a complete musical departure from her 2012 album Born to Die. Tropico is a film based around stories from the Bible: "It's Elvis and Jesus and Marilyn and extraterrestrials all in one." Lasting almost 30 minutes, the Anthony Mandler film stars albino model Shaun Ross alongside the singer, and is available to stream from Vevo.“Ultraviolence is a hugely self-aware record that allows the listener to read in between the lines and see that one of music’s most polarizing stars knows exactly what she wants to do, and she does it well.” She only comes to me sometimes, which is annoying." "I don't want to say, 'Yeah, definitely – the next one's better than this one,' because I don't really hear a next one. When announcing her short film Tropico this summer, the star described it as her "farewell project" and also told Nylon magazine in November's issue that she was unsure she could make a second album: "When people ask me about it, I just have to be honest – I really don't know," said Del Rey. "I feel like everything I wanted to say, I've said already." "What would I say?" she told Vogue when asked about a new album. In February she suggested that she might be finished with music altogether. News of Del Rey's second album comes at the end of a year of mixed messages from the singer. While there are no further details regarding the followup to 2012's Born to Die, the word "ultra-violence" was used in Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange in reference to the droogs' favourite pastime of crazed sprees of brutality and mayhem.
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