Norman Fucking Rockwell!
by Lana Del Rey
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  1. Ricko
    Aug 20, 2020
    8
    I've been aware of Lana Del Rey since her "Born to Die" record but "NFR" was the first album of hers that I listened to from start to finish as there were a few of the singles that really appealed to me. The album is a masterclass in understatement. Every song is infused with so much melody, much of it in Del Rey's vocal lines. Her voice and lyrics are the star role here but these areI've been aware of Lana Del Rey since her "Born to Die" record but "NFR" was the first album of hers that I listened to from start to finish as there were a few of the singles that really appealed to me. The album is a masterclass in understatement. Every song is infused with so much melody, much of it in Del Rey's vocal lines. Her voice and lyrics are the star role here but these are backed by immaculately produced arrangements. The singles all come early in the album and while the tempo drops as the album progresses, the quality doesn't drop at all. The dreamy, druggy mood created by sounds and lyrics is something else. I'll definitely be checking out her other albums based on this.… Expand
  2. mrmonster
    Aug 31, 2019
    10
    After listening to just a handful of songs I can assure you that Norman F##king Rockwell is another of Lana del Rey's knockout masterpieces. "Hope is a Dangerous Thing..." in particular is an amazing song.
  3. ZayneM
    Dec 7, 2019
    10
    Beautiful. Vulnerable. Truly magical from start to finish. Some of her best work; an album that will stand the test of time.
  4. stingo
    Sep 13, 2019
    10
    this album isn’t music; it’s pure poetry

    Lana is the most exciting and unpredictable poet and musician in our lifetime. I feel lucky to be her contemporary and I am looking forward to the next step in her career.
  5. Ciro
    Sep 7, 2019
    10
    Cohesive and as beautiful as ever, I think this album is Lana at her best....
  6. Wael
    Sep 6, 2019
    8
    The long awaited fifth studio from Lana Del Rey is here and it's safe to say that it was worth the wait. "Norman **** Rockwell!" is a great record, very delicately written and mixed with the help of the super talented Jack Antonoff, and sung with the same graceful, soft, and swooning vocals Del Rey has been blessing us with.

    Definitely a step-up from Lana's last record, "Lust for    The long awaited fifth studio from Lana Del Rey is here and it's safe to say that it was worth the wait. "Norman **** Rockwell!" is a great record, very delicately written and mixed with the help of the super talented Jack Antonoff, and sung with the same graceful, soft, and swooning vocals Del Rey has been blessing us with.

    Definitely a step-up from Lana's last record, "Lust for Life", which was experimental in its own way, this new one contains some of the best tracks she has ever delivered. The album opens with Lana singing 'Goddamn man-child / you **** me so good I almost said I love you' on the title/opening track, which then moves to tracks such as 'Venice **** a 9-minutes treat that has the tenderest melodies, and lyrics that'll definitely give listeners summertime sadness (pun-intended) and 'Love song', which has the best verses on this entire record. The placement of 'Cinnamon Girl' right after it is a beautiful step in the right direction. The last track on this album, 'hope is a dangerous thing', is the best possible closer to such an adventurous, eventful collection of songs.

    Even though it could've used a shorter tracklist ('Doin' Time' could've been cut, for example), "Norman **** Rockwell!" will definitely be remembered as one of Lana Del Rey's finest works.    … Expand
  7. matthewmirliani
    Oct 9, 2019
    9
    The album is a dazzling showcase for Del Rey. Some of her most stunning, emotive, and beautiful work is on display here — those opening three tracks are simply genius and breathtaking (the lyrics are one thing, the American Life by Madonna-esque guitar and folktronica flairs in the third track are another - an interesting allusion to a similarly disenchanted album about the AmericanThe album is a dazzling showcase for Del Rey. Some of her most stunning, emotive, and beautiful work is on display here — those opening three tracks are simply genius and breathtaking (the lyrics are one thing, the American Life by Madonna-esque guitar and folktronica flairs in the third track are another - an interesting allusion to a similarly disenchanted album about the American Dream). The middle of the album, with tracks such as “Love Song,” “How to disappear,” “California,” and “The greatest” is a collection of stunning, cinematic sadcore surf-rock heavy-hitters — one right after the other—and also rank among Lana’s best. Lana is making art and making statements like no one else in the industry. In this record she continues to prove the value of her voice, and the value of the story she tells; modern music wouldn’t be the same without her and we are so grateful an artist like her exists.… Expand
  8. 0987
    Sep 24, 2019
    10
    I just want to say: thank you Lana del Rey for your music. Loving you since Born to Die, now loving you even more!
  9. Eullk
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    Lana Del Rey has really blown me away with this new album! At my first listen I was already sure this album was her Magnus Opus.

    Norman F****** Rockwell has cemented Lana Del Rey as a staple of the 21 century, very few artist are ever able to create an intricate album of this calibre! It’s a truly enchanting record with absolutely no dull moments, despite having no ‘generic’ radio    Lana Del Rey has really blown me away with this new album! At my first listen I was already sure this album was her Magnus Opus.

    Norman F****** Rockwell has cemented Lana Del Rey as a staple of the 21 century, very few artist are ever able to create an intricate album of this calibre! It’s a truly enchanting record with absolutely no dull moments, despite having no ‘generic’ radio friendly songs.

    I personally was not too taken by her last couple of albums, and I’m not saying they were bad, they just missed the mark for me, failing to hit the quality of both Born To Die and Ultraviolence. But this album has truly proved me wrong, exceeding both these albums in every way. Lana has truly outdone herself, proving herself to be a true artist and will be remembered for this album for decades to come.    … Expand
  10. brockcheese
    Sep 15, 2019
    9
    Going for a more stripped down production this time Lana focusses less on the bombast of her previous record with more Leonard Coen esque piano ballads.
  11. andreslopez
    Aug 31, 2019
    10
    best album of the 2019 so far, LOVER by Tayor is also amazing. stop pitting women against each other. Love xx
  12. Annderson
    Sep 3, 2019
    10
    It's her best album ever, period. Perfect in every detail it has, a true masterpiece of our time.
  13. ragingprimerWL
    Aug 31, 2019
    10
    Album of the Year. Lana's strongest and most consistent work. Swifties are just bitter their idol can't make a COHESIVE album.
  14. fabriciomeilhac
    Sep 6, 2019
    10
    Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique
  15. adisin2494
    Sep 6, 2019
    9
    While this album is lyrically Lana at her finest, Jack Antonoff’s and Rick Nowell’s productions make sure to bring this album to its deserving status as a contender for Album of the year. At no point in the album does the production seem too over the top compared to Lana’s vocals and the production has made sure to embellish lana’s voice instead of taking the attention away from it. EvenWhile this album is lyrically Lana at her finest, Jack Antonoff’s and Rick Nowell’s productions make sure to bring this album to its deserving status as a contender for Album of the year. At no point in the album does the production seem too over the top compared to Lana’s vocals and the production has made sure to embellish lana’s voice instead of taking the attention away from it. Even when the production does seem to take the attention away, we get a masterpiece like Venice **** where the psychedelic synths get their own lime light as lana intimates her harmonies. The best track of the album is highly debatable. California is a song that even Antonoff could not hypothetically deliberately besmirch given its classic Lana formula of the poignant nostalgia compounded with her signature sadcore voice and lyrics. Cinnamon Girl with its subliminal beats and a delicately puissant outro can easily be put in the top tier of all the songs released this year. The next best american record, a run-away ‘Lust for life’ track is worthy of its title and coalesces the general sound of both the albums with absolute dovetail. Doing Time, a cover of the memorialised Sublime track, is sure to not fail the original and is one of the only tracks on the album that Lana has allowed herself to sing in an upbeat melody. Mariner’s Apartment Complex, the first introduction to the then-unnamed record, was and continues to be a song that encapsulates the general production of the album : music to listen to while you drive off into the sunset. Happiness is a butterfly is a track which, like Norman **** Rockwell, the title track, finds Lana at her most assertiveness taking the steering wheel of the relationship and speaking up to the subject of the songs which she, arguably, has never done in her previous records. The greatest, a standout among standouts, with the first guitar chord being struck is bound to compel the listeners to vicariously reminisce their own lives as Lana does and also have a political conscience of accepting whats happened and moving ahead with the change of times. Hope is a dangerous thing, released well before the album, is a song for the generation that has grown up to and with lana’s repertoire. With a simple piano progression, lana moans over the life she lives and the life she could have but ultimately resigns to the facts of life and clings on to hope, which is paradoxical to her way of life, as the only thing that has and always will be her guilt and boon. The 2 songs: Bartender and How to Disappear seem to be the only two songs that don't quote match up to the prodigal attributes of all the other songs on the record. The former inundated with references ranging from ladies of the canyon to Crosby, Stills and Nash seems lyrically too ambiguous. Ironically, she has been sober for 9 years and ascertains it in the track. But sonically, doesn't seem to fit into the sanguine and placid energy of the entire record. How to disappear, though lyrically a masterpiece, doesnt seem to be coherent with the production and while the live acoustic performance of the song raised hopes for the song, the production is nothing short of a let down. But, to end this review on a highly positive note, ‘Love Song’ and **** it I love you” are the last tracks on this review. Live song, with the enthralling strings and the soft piano accentuate the delicate poetry that lana’s song-writing is. “In your car, I’m a star, and I’m burning through you” almost whispered so subtly, can only make the anticipation for the upcoming poetry book much more unbearable. And with **** it I love you”, the only song apart from Doin Time, spends part of its run time with mellow instrumentals and part of its run time with Lana declaring **** it” to the trademark Antonoff synths and strings. The song delves into dark imagery juxtaposed by neon delivered with multitudes of lana’s vocal styles, ranging from the high note deliveries to an almost mumbling singing. Over all, the album ranks above Ultra-violence only because of the emphasis on lana’s vocal mastery and ingenuity is much more limpid in comparison on this album. So yes, it is the most intimate, personal, mature and beautiful record on lana’s repertoire and most definitely one of the most prolific albums in the alternate scene this year.… Expand
  16. rafaelfsobral
    Nov 15, 2019
    10
    Best album of the year. Lana del Rey is one of the greatest songwriters of the century.
  17. danhoney
    Aug 30, 2019
    10
    Desde o BTD a Lana está em evolução. E isso é fato. A evolução pro Ultra foi magnífica, principalmente na parte lírica que desde então melhorou bastante. A voz da Lana está mais sólida a cada álbum, soa tão boa que ninguém nem lembra mais como era suas performances por volta de 2011/2012. Lana se tornou uma mulher mais madura, e sua forma de enxergar o mundo já não é mais a mesma. Ela estáDesde o BTD a Lana está em evolução. E isso é fato. A evolução pro Ultra foi magnífica, principalmente na parte lírica que desde então melhorou bastante. A voz da Lana está mais sólida a cada álbum, soa tão boa que ninguém nem lembra mais como era suas performances por volta de 2011/2012. Lana se tornou uma mulher mais madura, e sua forma de enxergar o mundo já não é mais a mesma. Ela está feliz, suas letras mesmo um pouco tristes e melancólicas estão conseguindo deixar o seu público feliz. Lana se tornou uma das melhores compositoras dessa década. E toda aclamação que ela tem ela merece. Não quero ser clichê, mas é até difícil escolher quais as faixas destaques desse disco.… Expand
  18. Kolakas3
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    Swifties deserve electric chair, try harder next time and keep flopping x
  19. leolimantx
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    And Lana proves why she is the best! Lana and Jack made a masterpiece together.
  20. quachtrungkien
    Sep 3, 2019
    10
    After years of being underrated by critics, Lana Del Rey has finally won TRUE recognition for her works of art. NFR! has proved her genius songwriting and stunning melody creation. Special thanks to Jack Antonoff for co-producing another masterpiece.

    Recommended tracks: Happiness is a butterfly, The greatest, Love song, Venice **** hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have -    After years of being underrated by critics, Lana Del Rey has finally won TRUE recognition for her works of art. NFR! has proved her genius songwriting and stunning melody creation. Special thanks to Jack Antonoff for co-producing another masterpiece.

    Recommended tracks: Happiness is a butterfly, The greatest, Love song, Venice **** hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it.    … Expand
  21. mariohenrique
    Dec 22, 2019
    10
    a cada álbum Lana prova que consegue se reinventar e lançar coisas inovadoras. Os vocais maduros, letras profundas... incrível. É o melhor álbum lançado por ela até agora. A faixa-titulo, Hapinness is a Butterfly e Venice **** são as melhores do disco. Merece ganhar o Grammy de ÁLBUM DO ANO
  22. luislmf
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    100 years from now this album will be a refence, as all kind of art able to speak directly to our soul.
  23. Vianna
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    Lana is one of the best artists in this decade, and this album adds another powerful endorsement to that.
  24. perli
    Sep 4, 2019
    10
    An excellent album, simply beautiful as aesthetic experience. At the time of Amazon forests on fire, of disappearing glaciers, of rising inequality and injustice, of decline in culture of reading books, of mediocre pop culture, her moody and melancholic vision speaks to me on mytho-poetic level. In ludic play with words in her lyrics, in her soft but sophisticated use of singing voice, andAn excellent album, simply beautiful as aesthetic experience. At the time of Amazon forests on fire, of disappearing glaciers, of rising inequality and injustice, of decline in culture of reading books, of mediocre pop culture, her moody and melancholic vision speaks to me on mytho-poetic level. In ludic play with words in her lyrics, in her soft but sophisticated use of singing voice, and her musically elaborated and shifting mid-tempo melodies I detect and feel deeply the poetic truth of the existence in our strange age.… Expand
  25. jimmyh
    Sep 1, 2019
    10
    Lana Del Rey is one of a kind and this album is so incredibly good it makes me cry.
  26. framaz72
    Aug 31, 2019
    10
    Norman **** Rockwell, Lana Del Rey's sixth record from a major label presents itself as what it probably her most mature album to date. Anyone with a little knowledge of her work can sense that the songs she delivers are utterly genuine and intimate.
    The production by Jack Antonoff offers plenty of melodic chords and piano progressions while Lana's feather-like voice and very modern    Norman **** Rockwell, Lana Del Rey's sixth record from a major label presents itself as what it probably her most mature album to date. Anyone with a little knowledge of her work can sense that the songs she delivers are utterly genuine and intimate.
    The production by Jack Antonoff offers plenty of melodic chords and piano progressions while Lana's feather-like voice and very modern lyrics take the listener on the journey of a lonely girl who is fighting with all of her heart to find the only thing that still matters - love - amidst a fallen burning America on the verge of cultural and literal apocalypse.
    We get a strong sentiment that no song on this record was thought out throughout its process of creation to be a commercial success or a radio friendly track. Every second of Norman **** Rockwell comes out unfiltered from Lana's heart and mind directly into our ears. This music was made by Lana for Lana - and we are so happy to hear it.    … Expand
  27. potatoman222
    Sep 3, 2019
    10
    Lana Del Rey volta com seu trabalho mais maduro até a data. Suas letras transpassam a evolução da própria cantora como pessoa e a sonoridade eleva NFR como o trabalho mais coeso de Del Rey
  28. AlexSunPraiser
    Sep 3, 2019
    10
    NFR is a mood album that instantly transports you to a californian fever dream of soothing nostalgic reception. LDR's best work till date
  29. LatinCritic13
    Oct 4, 2019
    9
    Haven't listen an album by Lana del Rey and I gotta say, it's mesmerizing. And I even thought the guy that was on the album cover look like Matt Dillon.
  30. Leonando_souza
    Aug 31, 2019
    10
    Definitely this is her best album ever. I'm very proud of the NFR 'cause is so high produced and the songs bring me a lot of peace.
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Universal acclaim - based on 28 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 26 out of 28
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Oct 9, 2019
    75
    Things inevitably drift, but beneath the surface in the best songs there is a toughness and a newfound resilience.
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  2. No Ripcord
    Oct 2, 2019
    90
    It's a remarkably sharp pop record that retains her fascination with pop-culture iconography and the rosey simplicity of a post-war America where classic rock and blue jeans ruled and takes them to much deeper places. ... Think of it as an hour-long car ride peeling down the highway with classic rock blaring out of the radio and no real destination in mind other than where your impulsive nature might take you.
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  3. Uncut
    Sep 19, 2019
    80
    A thematically rich record, heavy on mood and elegantly written in a way that positions Del Rey between Eve Babitz and Carole King. There are beguiling and evolving melodies underneath the spare piano and acoustic arrangements. [Nov 2019, p.24]
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