Every Lana Del Rey Album Ranked Worst To Best
8. Honeymoon
Del Rey's fourth album is something of a blunder, failing to live up to the excellence of its predecessors Born To Die and Ultraviolence whilst simultaneously featuring some of her most accomplished tracks and refreshingly laidback music.
Reaching its apex with the anthemic High By the Beach, Honeymoon moves between mysteriously romantic and emotionally tortured, thanks in equal part to Del Rey's typically poetic lyrics and some of her catchiest hooks.
The weaknesses of the album, then, come from the occasionally dull musical arrangements and lack of forward progression. Save for High By the Beach, Freak and Salvatore, the record ultimately ends up feeling slightly stilted, lacking the moody ambiance of Born To Die or the overarching themes of Ultraviolence.
It's a fun record with more great tracks than poor ones, but compared to Del Rey's other work it just feels unfinished and clunky, and at 65 minutes long its weaknesses are impossible to ignore.