Is Lena Del Rey getting optimistic? | Israel today

In the singer's new album, which came out this weekend, it seems that the existential sadness in her songs is replaced in the hope that it will be okay • And what fun she gives her voice to lead

• Blessed minimalism.

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When it comes to listening to Lena Del Rey's new album, there's a pretty clear idea of ​​what you're about to get.

There will be a deep melancholy wrapped in sweetness, as if Del Rey enjoys sadness and cannot really exist without it.

There will be "electronic touches" that will spice up stories about rich and famous souls outwardly, but miserable and tormented beneath the surface.

The smiles that white teeth reveal and the sparkling life will sometimes end in a terrible tragedy.

This will usually occur within the California borders.

In the meantime, the singer will take her fans on a time travel to the USA of the Fifties-Sixties. 

Del Rey is not necessarily an artist who will explore new avenues.

She's not suddenly recording a jazz song or a Latin album out of nowhere.

Lena does what Lena does, and she continues to do so in "Chemtrails over the Country Club", her seventh and new album.

That is, almost.

Because while you can recognize that this is Del Rey from the very first moments of "White Dress", an opening song that throws us into her distant days as a waitress, something there is different.

Its usual electronic production and large orchestral arrangements were replaced by minimalism.

Del Rey gives her voice a lead this time, accompanied by piano or acoustic guitar.

In most of the songs she sings in a whisper, her voice cracking at times, leaving room for welcome inaccuracies.

And thanks to producer Jack Antonoff, a name that has been heard a lot in recent years, for his involvement in albums of names like Taylor Swift and Lord, and for his ability to bring out hidden quality singers.   

Along with the excellent theme song there are recited songs like "Not All Who Wander Are Lost".

As is the beautiful and complex "Dark but Just a Game" (in which the effects of the Beatles can be identified).

"Dance Till We Die" flirts for a moment with 70's rock.

Particularly successful is "Breaking Up Slowly," a beautiful, mature song about a painful but necessary parting.

After years of existential sadness, Del Rey moves a little away from the sunny and tragic California and opens up a place for the hope that something will still be okay.