Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence

In 2012, Lana Del Rey made people sit up and take notice with Born To Die – the album’s murky, cinematic sound and ‘damaged goods’ lyrical schtick capturing the zeitgeist.

The new album Ultraviolence doesn’t deviate from that path – this record can be summed up as ‘more of the same’.

There’s a certain appeal – beauty, even – to Del Rey’s fatalistic hymns of dysfunction and star-crossed lovers but ultimately it becomes a chore listening to song after song bearing the same lyrical clichés, the same plodding melodies, the same foggy production, sung in the same monotonal vocals. (PH)

**½ /5