Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to JacksonP,
I stumbled upon this fairly scathing review from the Harvard Crimson yesterday too.
That's a terribly-written review. Oh dear.
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Capture: Laneway 2012, in reply to peter mclennan,
Thanks for those, Peter and Karen.
Another crowd shot, during The Pains of Being Pure At Heart.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Sacha,
The interesting thing about 'Not Given Lightly' is that it was -- as Chris has told it -- a deliberate attempt at producing a highly accessible, radio-friendly pop song.
It wasn't really, and radio still ignored it, but it became something much bigger than radio.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to James Butler,
To clarify: The britpoppers (especially Nigel Godrich) did compress for artistic effect, just not one I liked.
I bought What's the Story, Morning Glory? and actually traded it because it annoyed me so much. I didn't understand why until I read about the Loudness Wars.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Andre,
You downloaded it on Twitter! OMG! Now awaiting a US law enforcement authority rendition?
The link was on Twitter, the file was one MediaFire.
Which is, y'know, one of the good file-lockers. I figured it wouldn't have stayed there if someone had really wanted it taken down.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Pete,
Please Russell, I have an imagination and it feels rather soiled right now
Sorry dude. Can't be unwritten now.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Andrew Dubber,
What you all appear to have missed - but was revealed at Midem last week - is that Lana del Rey is 100% CGI.
You should drink whisky and post more often.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
All the hooha around Lana Del Rey has resulted in a lot of really good writing on the subject. I’m particularly impressed by Jessica Hooper at Spin (Deconstructing Lana Del Rey) and Sasha Frere-Jones at the New Yorker (Screen Shot: Lana Del Rey’s fixed image)
Those are both much better-informed than my review, but we essentially come to the same conclusions.
I'm way less exercised about the supposed lack of lyrical virtuosity than Frere-Jones, but I'd love to have written what he did here:
Much of the rest of the Internet is equally interested in Del Rey, although few commenters have been as amusing as Carles. Del Rey has managed, like a slow car in the left lane, to make everyone around her angry and over-invested, despite doing relatively little.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to James Butler,
I think it's getting worse in the era of pervasive iPods and mp3s, because compression gets around some of the failings in lossy (size) compression codecs
I actually noticed it when I played it it from my iPad, which I've set up with an external DAC which markedly improves the resonance and definition of most MP3s, especially with older recordings. It seemed to make the LDR album sound worse.
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Hard News: Review: Lana Del Rey, 'Born…, in reply to Ben McNicoll,
Bad night?
Terrible. Apparently it’s a notoriously difficult stage for singing on. She looked like she couldn't breathe for nerves.
She was much better on Later with Jools Holland:
And in a slightly bizarre setting on this german show:
