Lana Del Rey receives further raves for 'Blue Banisters,' premieres music video for title track

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Lana Del Rey released her second album of 2021, Blue Banisters, today, and with it continued the winning streak with critics that began with 2019's Norman Fucking Rockwell! She also premiered the music video for the album's title track (above).

"There is a sense of playfulness, unguardedness, and freedom to Blue Banisters. If its predecessor was Lana's most traditional singer-songwriter affair... then these 15 tracks share a more boundless vision." ★★★½ -Pitchfork
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Lana Del Rey’s second album of the year is a sweeping survey of her talent as a songwriter https://t.co/prs9opuHhy
- Pitchfork (@pitchfork) October 22, 2021


"Del Rey writes about complicated love relationships with her parents, sister and female friends, and finds compelling nuances in that material." ★★★½ -Consequence of Sound
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Lana Del Rey is back with her eighth studio album, and second of 2021. Listen to Blue Banisters: https://t.co/WtMswFYSGy #LanaDelRey pic.twitter.com/HvyMJzSIoZ
- Consequence (@consequence) October 22, 2021


"Though still world-weary as ever, Del Rey is, on Blue Banisters, for the first time diaristic and ad hoc. This album is a stunner." ★★★★ -Exclaim
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Lana Del Rey's 'Blue Banisters' is a less glamorous, carefully unmediated autobiography full of love that, though tired, rejoices at the fact that it exists at all (via @Interscope). Our 8/10 review: https://t.co/PA0eYHyMhX
- Exclaim! (@exclaimdotca) October 22, 2021


"...studded with offbeat images and intimacies... far more elliptical and mysterious than it first appears." ★★★★ -The Independent
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Blue Banisters contains a revelation that colours all of Lana Del Rey’s work - reviewhttps://t.co/94X8Y8XYzI
- Independent Music (@IndyMusic) October 22, 2021


"[Del Rey]'s voice sounds phenomenal-the richest, warmest and most stunning it ever has... Blue Banisters reminds us that, beyond the social media fires and press backlashes, [she] is still as great as she’s always been." ★★★★ -NME
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On her eighth record - one that subtly responds to her critics - Del Rey's voice has never sounded better. Read the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ NME review of 'Blue Banisters' https://t.co/8oUb8hXIII
- NME (@NME) October 22, 2021


Blue Banisters currently holds a Metascore of 78 based on 11 reviews. (For comparison, Norman Fucking Rockwell! holds an 87 and Chemtrails Over the Country Club holds an 81, each based on 28 reviews.)

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