The successor of a million-selling debut applies in show business to be extremely difficult. How to meet the often too high expectations? Copy? Adopt an entirely new direction? Both go in regularity wrong. Del Rey runs differently from the dilemma, by requiring the best musicians with whom she creates new, atmospärisch dense songs, dark, sultry, sometimes moody, and it specifies the institution with which it produces something quite unique, something that from the pabulum of mainstream pop peaking like Vesuvius from the deep valley. And that outshines everything all can burn more quickly the mayflies, as if it were granted them anyway.
"Ultraviolence" has become an album that casts a spell and a suction effect develops, which I had not expected to this extent. Sexy, lascivious, cool, love for detail. Quite big pop.
Chapeau, Miss Del Rey!