Chemtrails Over the Country Club
A quiet, acoustic-leaning turn toward Americana and country-folk. Warm, intimate, and filled with whispered memories of friendship and escapism.
A quiet, acoustic-leaning turn toward Americana and country-folk. Warm, intimate, and filled with whispered memories of friendship and escapism.
Acoustic retreat
A quiet hum of acoustic guitars and warm piano chords replaces the heavy cinematic beats, pulling you into a sun-drenched backyard of whispered secrets. It feels like sharing a late-night drink with old friends, trading stories of escape and heartbreak over soft, country-folk strums that linger in the evening air.
The vocals lean far further into falsetto than the rest of the catalogue.
Widely admired for its evocative world-building and nostalgic atmosphere, the album was warmly received by critics who praised its strong melodic songwriting and tender meditations on fame and romance. While some reviewers felt it was a quieter, slower-burning experience than its predecessor, most found its dreamlike quality highly compelling.
“The star follows up her career-high ’Norman Fucking Rockwell!’ with another stunning album, one the aches with meditations on fame and romance”Read review
“By and large, Chemtrails Over The Country Club confirms every longstanding inadequacy to Lana del Rey’s craft with a pernicious listlessness that bloats its relatively economical runtime and extends a mind-erasing tedium far beyond those temporal confines”Read review
“Damn-near impossible to resist”Read review
“Chemtrails over the Country Club is sultry at times, syrupy sweet at others, and sad in a truer way than we have yet seen from Lana”Read review
“Her usual themes of nostalgia, troubled fame and ne’er-do-well lovers are trotted out again – but the melody writing is stronger than ever”Read review
“The controversial pop singer-songwriter expands her allusive Americana dreamscapes”Read review
“The album is a compelling, if minor, chapter in the artist’s ongoing saga of fatalistic romanticism”Read review
“Lana Del Rey’s sixth album dials back the grandiosity in favor of smaller, more intimate moments. It carries a roaming spirit of folk and Americana without losing the romantic melodrama of her best work”Read review
“Though ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’ isn’t quite Lana Del Rey’s strongest album or the most iconically Lana, it’s an intimate, emotional, and largely successful renewal of her artistic vows”Read review
“The singer looks beyond the San Gabriel Mountains and longs for stability on her most introspective album yet”Read review
“The singer/songwriter, who relishes the dramatic, reminds listeners that it’s all about her on her seventh studio album”Read review
“It’s on an entirely different page than the club-ready remixes of her earlier material, but with Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Del Rey shows her softest moments can be her most powerful”Read review
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