Ultraviolence [VINYL]

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Receiving critical acclaim for the album’s lyricism, cohesiveness, production and Del Rey's vocal performance. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Hacemos nuestro mejor esfuerzo para entregar su pedido a tiempo, sin embargo, puede haber retrasos mientras intentamos mantener a todos a salvo. In keeping with the previous albums, Del Rey takes on different personas for each track; I find her songs very visual - and yes, I've seen her videos, but I find myself conjuring up the lurid, paperback cover illustrations for each character she adopts; a list of pulp-fiction, soap-opera types - the battered girlfriend, the up-market escort, the gangster's mistress, the pretentious, would-be hipster of the afore mentioned "Brooklyn Baby" - a wicked self-parody, perhaps- which contains the most obvious example of the ironic, jet-black humour at play on a few of the tracks. The album really reaches its pinnacle with Old Money, which is an incredibly personal and intimate ballad, one of her very best songs, even if the melody is not exactly original. Some have criticised her vocal performance on the cover version, The Other Woman, and admittedly when I first heard it, I thought it was over the top and a bit ridiculous, but my view has changed since then, so much so that I can't help thinking that she should do an album of cover versions next.Star-crossed lovers of porcelain fragile women and bullish men are still central to the story (a certain factor in choosing to reinterpret the eternal Romeo and Juliet’s Love Theme by Nino Rota for Old Money) but she finds the space to bite back on Fucked My Way To The Top, Brooklyn Baby and Cruel World. I would also criticise her decision not to print more than fragments of her lyrics, as it smacks a bit of cowardice (or lack of confidence), one or the other.

One of her greatest gifts is her ability to conjure magical melodies seemingly out of nowhere, but that gift is absent to a certain degree on this album. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. As for the album itself, it's a touch underwhelming considering the material she delivered on the Paradise Edition of Born To Die.

Some cracks and pops here and there (not too much to complain about it) this is for sure a great sounding pressing! If you have the standard album, the last track "The Other Woman" serves as a neat, ironic foil to the cynical voraciousness of preceding tracks like "Sad Girl", "Money, Power, Glory"and the outrageously provocative "F****d My Way Up to the Top". If I was being harsh, I would say she was kind of stealing stuff from Cocteau Twins, but I really like the fact she would even go there with her voice. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.Sounds amazing, very clean and I have no issues with surface noise or popping, it’s really thick and high quality they did a great job on this repressing. As an avid vinyl collector since the early 2000s, I have my fair share of vinyl by LDR in my collection.