btw, Lana's US tv debut is this Sat nite on SNL. It will be either transcendent or trainwrecky
Turned out to be the latter, as you might have heard since then. A lot of digital ink has been spilled about her practically everywhere in music-blogger circles ever since. No need for me to recap any of it here, just to note that the album is out and it is an enjoyable listen indeed. I don't love every song, but the ones I skip are the ones I see others saying are their favorites, which always seemed to me like a good test for quality, different people finding different things to like.
She's sorta in between Stevie Nicks and Neko Case (and you know I don't say those names lightly, I mean Neko Case to me is pretty much perfect in almost every way, so hey) with a little bit of strings and hip hop in the production, which works well with her whole Hollywood-Babylon-in-ruins Lynchian thing. Mostly people are talking about What She Means and where the Message of her image fits into modern feminism and all these other really odd tangents while dismissing the music entirely, but I'm here to say it's actually good.
