**Please note that these have some surface noise throughout quiet passages.
Leftfield Indie Folk Rock - Debut LP
For those who are genuinely interested in the music, though, there’s plenty to embrace with this album. Lana Del Rey (or Ray at the time, as shown on the album cover) is talented as ever, and her songwriting skills are as mature as you’d expect. It’s easy to see the beginnings of the themes that would go on to permeate Born To Die and Paradise: there’s plenty of sultry talk of courting men, loving men, leaving men, playing with men, wanting men, and Coney Island. None of this sounds like filler: each track has its own personality, and like a Fiona Apple work, the songs bloom and reveal more of themselves with each additional listen. l