Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd

This is an amazing album! Lana Del Rey has proven that she is an amazing singer and is very talented.I enjoy listening to it.The songs are superb.

Nine albums in eleven years is prodigious output by any measure. Add in that Lana's work is of a consistently high standard, and you have a compellingly strong case to say she is one of the best songwriters of the 21st century.Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard significantly strengthens her impressive canon of work. It is a beautifully complex album that stands comparison with the superb NFR, often regarded as the magnum opus of her career so far. This album is up there with NFR and in time it might be viewed as having surpassed it. Whether she intends it or not, every time Lana releases a new set of compositions it feels like a concept album in the sense that, as with a book, it needs to be experienced from the beginning to the end. Miss a track and it's like missing a chapter.Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard embodies that feeling. While there are always individual compositions that stand out as personal favourites, every one of the sixteen tracks on this album contributes to the overall story. Even the interludes fit in seamlessly and in a wonderfully unstructured kind of way. Like little sub-plots, they bring intrigue and add to the overall effect.Having listened to it many times now, I can't imagine Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard with any of the tracks missing. Whenever starting to play the album, I end up feeling compelled to listen to it all the way through. Its emotional engagement, musical arrangements that lean heavily on piano and strings, Lana’s dreamy, often spoken vocals, the contributions from guests, all harmonize to offer a deeply rewarding listening experience. And if you could pick the perfect time of day to play it, it’s stunning to chill to in the evening as the light fades.By Lana's standards it seems a much more personal composition compared to her other work, with themes of family and relationships often coming through. It took me about four listens to start to absorb the multiple layers and emotions conveyed by the album. To experience everything Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Boulevard has to offer, you do need to be willing to invest the time in it. Sixteen tracks weighing in at seventy-eight minutes can seem dense on first encounter, so if you don't have the patience or inclination to take the time, it probably isn't for you. All I can say is that you would be missing out. Musically speaking, it may be the most rewarding seventy-eight minutes you’ll get to spend.

It's not just the title that's long on this album from Lana del Rey; the playing time is close to 80 minutes, which is usually the limit of what a single CD disc can hold. A consequence of the extended playing time with including 16 songs it may take some time to form an overview of the whole.The three singles from the album,”The Grants”, ”A&W” and the title track are all very good and are probably the ones most people will stick to first – they are also among the first four. "The Grants" is a ballad with a gospel feel. The title track is a slow atmospheric number that sneaks up on the listener with thought-provoking lyrics. Much of the same can be said about "A&W", which is also the album's longest track.Lana del Rey goes pretty far in genres and the list of musicians is really long. Among other favorite songs is "Let the Light in", which includes a rare acoustic guitar. It's a nice sad ballad."Margaret" is another nice quiet song and "Grandfather . .. ” with quiet piano accompaniment and whispering vocals are also favourites.Along the way there are a handful of tracks that don't really catch my ear, but fortunately the album ends very nicely with "Taco Truck x VB" where parts of an early demo of "Venice Bitch" have been inserted.

Excellent

This album is an amazing achievement, & an essential buy for any modern music lover. There are 18 tracks, and the first six are just superb. The choral glory of “The Grants”, the classic Lana del Rey anthem of the title track, the bittersweet melody of “Sweet”, the fascinating meditation of “Judah Smith Interlude”, and the haunting voice and piano of “Candy Necklace” are a wonderful varied mix of great tunes & lyrics. But the crowning glory is the extraordinary “A&W”. A fabulous tune in two contrasting but complementary parts, which manages to be exquisitely touching, tragic, yet utterly beautiful at the same time, in which Lana manages to introduce us to an unforgettable character in just a few strokes of pen and voice, and also capture the drama of lost dreams and dashed hopes which most of us have faced. Musical & lyrical genius. The rest of the album - another 12 songs - is like looking at the sketchbook of a great artist. None are brilliant, but all are interesting and beautifully played; my two favourites are the sweet and wistful “Paris Texas”, and the weird & wonderful “Peppers”, which sounds like an exercise video produced by people high on drugs, with more fabulous lyrics. Buy it, buy it, buy it. If for nothing else, buy it for the truth, beauty and sheer magnificence of “A&W”.

If anyone didn’t know, that there is a tunnel under ‘Ocean Boulevard’ then go out and buy this, and find out for yourself…It’s the voice… the voice, and the voice…Indulge yourself in one of the few, true talents of today…Fortunately we still have Joni, sadly we lost Karen, and now we have Lana… for true vocal purists listen to it now!!!

Enjoyable great CD one of her best. Fast delivery.

So many of the songs in the album are lingering in my mind like the best ethereal and dark ear worms that Lana is so good at writing. The more I listen the more I want to listen.