Lana Del Rey Albums Ranked

Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its stylized, cinematic quality and exploration of themes of sadness, tragic romance, glamor, and melancholia, containing many references to pop culture, particularly 1950s and 1960s Americana. Born in New York City and raised in upstate New York, Del Rey returned to New York City in 2005 to begin her music career. Following numerous projects, including her self-titled debut studio album, Del Rey’s breakthrough came with the viral success of her debut single “Video Games” in 2011. She signed with Interscope and Polydor later that year. Her major-label debut, Born to Die (2012), was an international success and spawned “Summertime Sadness”, a top-ten single on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the singles “Blue Jeans” and “Born to Die”, which charted in several overseas territories. Del Rey released the EP Paradise in 2012. The next year, Del Rey ventured into film, writing and starring in the music short film Tropico; she released “Young and Beautiful” as the lead single for the romantic drama film The Great Gatsby (2013). Her accolades include two Brit Awards, two MTV Europe Music Awards, a Satellite Award, nine GAFFA Awards, six Grammy Award nominations, and a Golden Globe nomination. Here are all of Lana Del Rey albums ranked

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9. Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, 2020

“Sounds exactly like i thought it would, and i love that. Meandering, lofty sounding and heartfelt poetry accompanied by pleasant ambient pieces from Jack Antonoff. I really enjoy how vast the instrumentation gets at times, definitely worth a listen if you love how she tells stories on her records. gives me the feeling of walking down city streets and nights of aching heartbreak and i can’t help but love it. My only real complaint is at times, the mic quality becomes so low that it clashes with the instrumentation and takes me out of the atmosphere the cleaner sounding ones succeed in producing, but they’re all still very good and i enjoyed this record a lot.”

8. Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant, 2010

“There are two sides to Lana Del Ray. There’s the pop star. We get hints of it in songs like the strange electro sing song “Smarty” and the lite Bjork tryout “Mermaid Motel”. In these numbers, she fares okay but she doesn’t give anyone a run for their money. She has a naturally sensual voice. Her delivery is mesmerizing enough to warrant comparisons to Hope Sandoval and Jennifer Charles. Then there is that side to her which I hope she’d just stay in. The closer “Yayo” is a beautiful, somber, spare, dreamy song that she tears into with a commitment of a femme fatale. She is dangerous, mysterious, wounded and haunted. Another acoustic standout “Oh Say Can You See” is so captivating that she seems to stop time in just a few short breaths. _Lana Del Ray_ is by no means a perfect debut but it’s striking enough to say that she has more than hype going for her.”

7. Chemtrails Over The Country Club, 2021

“There are several moments on Chemtrails where Lana impresses that I’d like to highlight: first, her vocals. Beginning the album alone is a moment to take in, with Lana’s airy, almost whisper-like vocals hitting you as soon as the album’s opener, ‘White Dress’ hits its chorus. Additionally, Lana impresses again vocally near the end of the record with ‘Not All Who Wander Are Lost,’ providing some delightfully siren-like wails that dig their way into the deepest recesses of your mind. Additionally, I give my props to Lana’s sense of collaboration, with how well she harmonizes with other artists like Nikki Lane as seen on ‘Breaking Up Slowly,’ and with Weyes Blood & Zella Day off of the album’s final track, a cover of Joni Mitchell’s ‘For Free.'”

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6. Paradise, 2012

“A perfect EP offering some of her favorite songs. I suppose it could be considered a full album, clocking in at over 30 min. Seems sort of arbitrary that this wouldn’t be a full-length album but something with 6-8 tracks from the 60s/70s would”

5. Lust For Life, 2017

“Lust For Life” is the 4th album that Lizzy has put out under her alter-ego, Lana Del Rey. There is another album – issued in 2010 called “Lana Del Ray” but don’t bother looking for it – it is rarer than rocking horse shit – and I have tried! As with her other albums, “Lust For Life” is long – nearly 72 minutes – and 16 songs, there is an awful lot to take in – so this is very much about first impressions. What “Lust for Life” does is demand to be listened to – it pulls you in – and I was doing other things – but this ain’t back ground music.”

4. Honeymoon, 2015

“The way in which Honeymoon is just so beautiful! Listening to the album is an actual experience, it feels like listening to a painting. My personal favorites are Terrence Loves You, Freak, Art Deco, The Blackest Day, and Swan Song. The transition from Freak to Art Deco is actually ethereal. The sound of the album is very unlike Lana’s other records, it has a more grown-up, classic feel to it yet keeps Lana’s typical energy. Overall Honeymoon is an insanely well-crafted album and is a definite favorite of mine.”

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3. Ultraviolence, 2014

“Lana’s always positioned herself as an icon of faded mid-century glamour, and she does that here too, but this is probably the album where she comes closest to being the deconstructionist American tragedy she set out to be. She’s not Jackie Kennedy on this album; she’s Mary Jo Kopechne, abandoned by the latest branch in a haunted family tree, left to die in an Oldsmobile at the bottom of a saltwater pond.”

2. Born To Die, 2012

“I know a lot of people seem to hate Lana because of the press that surrounded her when she first came on the scene, but this album is my favorite of the year. It absolutely floored me. I could listen to the entire thing all the way through, and I have many times. Lana really is an exceptional songwriter. I can tell her writing apart, like when Cheryl Cole sang her song “Ghetto Baby”. I knew it was a Lana song because she has such a clear style. “Radio” is one of the most gorgeous tracks I have ever heard, and many of these songs were surprisingly amazing because I did not like “Video Games” when I first heard it. This album is sensational, and I think it will go down as one of my all-time favorites.”

1. Norman Fucking Rockwell!, 2019

“Listening to this after seeing Lana’s newest album at the time of writing this, Chemtrails Over the Country Club, next up on my queue. And in all the time it took for that record to come out, i still hadn’t really checked out this one. So i figured i might as well get it all done with in one go by listening to this Lana album in 2021. I actually wasn’t planning on finishing this album in one sitting, but i was already a couple tracks in and figured I might as well.