Lana Del Rey | Ultraviolence [Explicit Content] | CD

Recording information: Easy Eye Sound, Nashville, TN; Echo Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY; The Bridge, Glendale, LA; The Green Building, Santa Monica, CA.Photographers: Neil Krug; Myan Soffia.The maelstrom of hype surrounding self-modeled Hollywood pop star Lana Del Rey's 2012 breakthrough album, Born to Die, found critics, listeners, and pop culture aficionados divided about her detached, hyper-stylized approach to every aspect of her music and public persona. What managed to get overlooked by many was that Born to Die made such a polarizing impression because it actually offered something that didn't sound like anything else. Del Rey's sultry, overstated orchestral pop recast her as some sort of vaguely imagined chanteuse for a generation raised on Adderall and the Internet, with heavy doses of Twin Peaks atmosphere adding a creepy sheen to intentionally vapid (and undeniably catchy) radio hits. Follow-up album Ultraviolence shifts gears considerably, bu