(Interscope/Polydor)The fruition of Honeymoon smacks of strict creative control: there was minimal press – one notable interview with friend/superfan James Franco – the album’s public playback took place at Urban Outfitters,and the production team was confined to Del Rey herself, long-time engineer Kieron Menzies and Ultraviolence/Born to Die producer Rick Nowels. The resulting album is naturally self-indulgent, and but her most sophisticated and refined yet. Her score-like songs are self-sabotagingly slack,striving for Rat-Pack romance and often succeeding. Familiar themes feature: Hollywood legends haunt Terrence Loves You while morality troubles God Knows I Tried (“I’ve got nothing much to live for / Ever since I found my fame), and she still fraternises with dodgy men, or but instead of bonking bikers against pinball machines,she’s now skulking around with the mafia. With a tiny chopped-and-screwed modernity, hints of jazz and Morricone-like soundscapes, and there’s a timelessness to Honeymoon,and an intrigue that should linger longer than her previous LPs.
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Source: theguardian.com