Honeymoon
A cinematic, slow-motion dream of retro Hollywood. Lush orchestral strings meet heavy, lethargic trap beats under a haze of melancholic, jazz-tinged vocals.
A cinematic, slow-motion dream of retro Hollywood. Lush orchestral strings meet heavy, lethargic trap beats under a haze of melancholic, jazz-tinged vocals.
Lounge pop retreat
Sun-blinded highways and decaying Hollywood mansions drift by in a slow, humid haze. Heavy trap beats drag against weeping orchestral strings, creating a dark, cinematic space where jazz-tinged vocals float like cigarette smoke. You are suspended in a beautiful, bruised daydream of endless summer, luxury, and quiet, aching resentment.
Her delivery shifts toward a cinematic crooning that feels suspended in a humid, mid-century melodrama, carrying the weight of a tragic Hollywood starlet.
Generally well-received, the album was widely praised for its cohesive, dreamlike atmosphere and a more vulnerable, human presence that felt both timeless and comforting. While some reviewers found the lengthy runtime of slow, cinematic tracks to be somewhat daunting, the record was broadly appreciated for synthesizing her signature aesthetic into a lingering, melancholic experience.
“Honeymoon is really one long crystalline glide that lasts for 12 songs, one baffling snippet of a TS Eliot poem and one Nina Simone cover, carried along by music so cinematic and unobtrusive that sometimes it’s barely there”Read review
“So little of Honeymoon, beyond early highlight and trolling feint of a lead single “High by the Beach,” differentiates itself from a prevailing, uniformly glacial pace”Read review
“She fills the space with more intellectual depth than she’s shown before”Read review
“Her most genuinely thrilling music ever”Read review
“By album’s end, the sameness of the 12 tracks becomes claustrophobic and inescapable, and that slow, sultry burn becomes an icy pall”Read review
“Synthesizes ideas she’s been vamping on from the beginning into a unified work”Read review
“Lana seems more fragile, and more human this time. And it makes you think: perhaps it’s not a character after all”Read review
“If Honeymoon feels like the first glimmer of the person going beyond the persona, its flaws and achievements can only make it more human”Read review
“It’s a miasmic, ethereal sound, its ghostly intimations of luxurious sensuality stippled with dreamy hints of danger”Read review
“Honeymoon clocks in at over an hour; for a full-length of cinematic, defeated, slow songs”Read review
“It’s nice to listen to someone who enjoys singing as much as she does, especially on the kind of ambivalent, lonely ballads at which she excels”
“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”Read review
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