Lana Del Rey
Ultraviolence
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Vinyl, LP, Album, Deluxe Edition, Stereo
- Label
- Polydor · 3787448
rock
ElectronicRockPop BalladDream PopDowntempo
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Lana Del Rey Born To Die Born to Die is the before — Ultraviolence is what the direction changed to when Dan Auerbach produced a completely different record around her. -
Trentemøller The Last Resort (Vinyl Edition) Trentemøller's Last Resort and Ultraviolence share a quality of deliberate slowness and space — the drowned, melancholic film-scoring quality that 2006–2014 was working toward from different angles.
Ultraviolence (2014) is the pivot. Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) produced it, and what he built was the opposite of Born to Die’s gloss: loose, unhurried, Wurlitzer-and-baritone-guitar, closer to Lee Hazlewood or Mazzy Star than to anything on pop radio. Auerbach talked her out of the trap-pop formula and into the territory she has stayed in ever since.
The contrast between Born to Die and Ultraviolence, compressed into three LPs, is the whole arc of her artistic argument. The over-produced beginning, the pivot, the territory after the pivot: as a set they function as a statement about what it takes to find the sound you were actually looking for.