Every Lana Del Rey Album Ranked Worst To Best

9. Lana Del Ray

Del Rey's debut record - released under the title Lana Del Ray A.K.A Lizzy Grant - is actually a very strong start to a career destined to only get bigger with subsequent albums.

With songs like Kill Kill and Queen of the Gas Station you can already hear her digging into the themes of love and lonliness that would dominate her career, and the confidence of the bouncy, trip-hop instrumentals make the record perhaps her most upbeat project.

That being said, though the album makes for an exciting little pop piece, there's still a clear sense that Del Rey is still an artist trying to find her voice. There's nostalgic references to 50s culture, sure, but the more moody, introspective lyrics of her later years are not yet refined.

Between the guitar licks of Raise Me Up and the simple storytelling of Put Me in a Movie, Lana Del Ray is far from a skippable record, but it's certainly her least engaging and most unpolished album.