LANA DEL REY ‘Blue Bannisters’

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Since she emerged with ‘Video Games’ in 2011, the world has been fixated on the singer’s apparent “sadness”. “I’m not just one thing,” she reasoned to NME in 2019 of the melancholy that characterises some of her songs. “But being able to express my sadness sometimes makes me actually more cheerful than some people I know, because I gave myself permission to have a lot of colours.”  ‘Blue Banisters’ doesn’t continue the Laurel Canyon folk sound of ‘Chemtrails…’ or 2019’s ‘Norman F… Rockwell!’, though. Perhaps that’s because it’s a collection of both older songs and new material.

For all her media drama after the release of ‘Chemtrails…’, this album – Del Rey’s eighth – largely seems to have its focus on friends and family. There are songs like the ‘Mr Brightside’-referencing ‘Thunder’ that were written with members of The Last Shadow Puppets. For the most part, though, ‘Blue Banisters’ reminds us that, beyond the social media fires and press backlashes, Del Rey is still as great as she’s always been. With her attention firmly on her “endeavours” rather than the noise around her, perhaps her next album will be even better.