![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s a lot of ugly album cover art in the world. Luckily, I adore ugly things, both in their attempted seriousness or their blatant disregard for visual organization, which often occur simultaneously. The undisputed queen of perplexing album is Lana Del Rey, beloved singer and Courtney Love interviewer. There’s a lot of cover art to choose from: singles, EPs, albums, not to mention her unreleased material that lingers in the darkened corners of the Internet. Yesterday, she announced the official release date for her fifth album, Normal Fucking Rockwell!, alongside its tracklist and cover art, and it sure is…something. As curious as some of her artistic decisions may be, I find there’s an aesthetic arc at work nonetheless, one that finds inspiration in both the esoteric imaginings of the American cultural consciousness, and the everyday beauty of off-center selfies and lackluster lighting. Here are the strangest of the strange, from the pedestrian to the bewildering. Let’s go back to a simpler time, before the H&M commercials and twirls on Saturday Night Live. I became a fan last year and I havent had the chance to listen to a lot of the unreleased songs and most of them are getting taken down on Youtube and Spotify. In 2010, Del Rey released her first official album, Lana Del Rey a.k.a. The album showcases a Del Rey not yet fully formed. There’s an inkling of her interest in a mythical America, but she doesn’t yet have the means of expressing it fully. ![]()
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