As a (loading) oppressive summer day: The Limited Super Deluxe Edition of ULTRAVIOLENCE (LP and CD)

If one had to summarize in one sentence, as Lana Del Rey's album ULTRAVIOLENCE sounds, then you could compare oppressive summer day, in which heatedly beaten drums make noticeable dust swirling guitar riffs it with an extremely (loading). The album is inherent an unusual rock component is not initially want to associate the name of Lana Del Rey. Why be interested, who something like BORN TO DIE desired with his over-present, melancholic tuning string orchestra, be disappointed and cling most to the titles ULTRAVIOLENCE and Old Money. These are really the only songs that represent a sound reverberation their phenomenal commercial debuts and come up with dramatic strings.

From the lyrics ago but it operates in familiar paths, they act once more from Lana Del Rey's view of the American dream with all its quirks (WEST COAST, MONEY POWER GLORY, ****** MY WAY UP TO THE TOP) and its perception of aching love (CRUEL WORLD, SAD GIRL, PRETTY WHEN YOU CRY, old money). They sometimes runs wild in absolute bondage towards others and adorn this out with epic images that hint at the end of their earthly existence ("I could have died right there, 'cause he was right beside me": ULTRAVIOLENCE). Your sexy breathy, clad in Hall voice lets those words pregnant with meaning hanging in the air and the kind of atmosphere arise, for which it is known. Thus, if you have had a bad day, ULTRAVIOLENCE provides the perfect soundtrack to deliquescence in self-pity. The day then ends mostly with the realization that he was not so bad after all, if one considers, however Lanas constant "Summertime Sadness".

--- For Limited Super Deluxe Edition (LP and CD in a box) ---

Although the Limited Super Deluxe Edition of ULTRAVIOLENCE is no longer available directly from Amazon, you get them sometimes to buy more in the Market Place. The massive box contains the deluxe CD with three bonus tracks BLACK BEAUTY, Guns and Roses and FLORIDA kilos and two records with the fourteen songs on the CD. When the plates is called Picture Discs that have been printed. On the four LP sides facing away color variations of floral pattern can be seen, which serves as a label the CD.
Why completely missing the radio mix of West Coast, remains incomprehensible, he both the standard CD as well as the commercial here in Germany deluxe CD was attached but ... As compensation for the four LP-large prints obtained were, on thicker paper show that artsy images. Two of them are really nice, they show the artist with a cigarette in the flower bed, and when getting out of a car. The remaining two show a photograph from the knee of the singer (?) And a black and white shot of the night skyline of Los Angeles, serve on the introductory words of the title track as a heading.
Speaking Lyrics: yet all were reprinted in Born To Die and their PARADISE EDITION, this time it is limited to fragments. That one with a singer like Lana Del Rey, that emphasizes profound lyrics, no complete lyrics abdruckt, is simply incomprehensible. Place would have had it by far, the two paper Cover the LPs on one side are each snow white. The other side reveals the production notes for each song and Lana said thanks.
Much more important than the package itself is its sonic presentation. BORN TO DIE was time to say the least, issued on CD as a small sound disaster. Even listeners without high-end equipment have found that numerous distortions of Lana's voice occur particularly in Titles Born To Die, videogames and MILLION DOLLAR MAN who were owed the Loudness Wars. If the sound was just as messed up this time? Of reference far away ULTRAVIOLENCE compares favorably but still slightly better. There is in some songs even a certain dynamic between soft and loud passages, which can impress particularly on the supplied records (very nice: the title track ULTRAVIOLENCE). If it is, however, a little louder, the sound layer acts undifferentiated and in the heights unclean (as happened in the chorus of MONEY POWER GLORY). In the end will be presented again with this album pop music that unfortunately comes along always a bit too loud. And for that, the sound is almost already in order.

--- Conclusion ---

That's what I liked as a second album: A Lana Del Rey, who knows how to surprise. With her ULTRAVIOLENCE has succeeded in extremely good progress. Already her in the chorus strange arranged single release WEST COAST has suggest that the new from the old raw sound of distant Hollywood sixties with all its flourishes will differ. This sales polluting step it has so proved something of artistic integrity and done exactly what you would not expect from her (and certainly something they really wanted to do).
But the content will remain faithful to their style, languishes is still from track to track in the ears of their listeners and radiates its troubled vision of the United States.
The Limited Super Deluxe Edition is something like the comprehensive package for die-hard fans with some nice additions, although the radio mix of West Coast and the printed lyrics are missing. Because this album the shortcomings but do terrific eradicate, I will give a full five stars for it.