Lana Del Rey - Born To DieOn her stirring debut album, New York singer songwriter Lizzy Grant transforms into the more bombastically named Lana Del Rey and absolutely wallows in it. The songs are husky and sensual in a way that hits the sweet spot Cat Power has abdicated since The Greatest. Born To Die the album is a collection of tracks about which Lana says "the songs I've written are an homage to true love and a tribute to living life on the wild side." The songs are

whilst simultaneously recalling everything we’ve come to love about LC

Loud & Quiet

It also references his lost classic

never released as an LP

variously conjuring (leftfield) Flying Lotus

because they did achieve change

It suits the trio‰۪s creative desires and keeps them clear of the machinery that threatened to interfere with that process from the moment they threatened to get awfully popular awfully quickly over thirty years ago

'Leave It All Behind' starts out with an amorphous whine but quickly launches into something both supremely melodic and buzzing at the edges

eldritch pop groups

pressed on three 180g red

The debut album 'One More Thing' is the band’s love letter to the indie music they surrounded themselves with in their formative years

I sat in the control room while the others played - hitting ‘record’ and ‘stop’