Lana Del Rey is here to stay. Having recently topped numerous year end lists with Norman Fucking Rockwell!, the singer continues headfirst into 2020 looking forward to an upcoming full-length and what is sure to be a landmark Coachella performance. Because Del Rey is no stranger to strings—baroque pop arrangements illuminated Born to Die and a foreboding orchestral hum sits below "Lust for Life"— it is only natural that Vitamin String Quartet would draw inspiration from the kaleidoscopic sound collage that is her portrait of L.A.. The quartet reinterprets the artist’s trap-pop ballads through the swooning, careening melodies that lie at their heart, giving fans much of the emotive passion that they adore from the balladeer and uninitiated listeners a rich entry point to her world.
Following the success of her 2019 Grammy®-nominated album Norman Fucking Rockwell, Lana releases her highly anticipated seventh studio album Chemtrails Over The Country Club.
Signed to a major label at an early age, she was groomed in the darkness of studios, the label knowing the potential they had in their singer/songwriter. She wrote on her own, then she was paired with a sympathetic producer/songwriter, live performances taking a back seat to woodshedding. If this story in the early years of the 2010s brings to mind Lana Del Rey, it's no coincidence that it also applies to New Zealand singer/songwriter Lorde, whose 2013 debut, Pure Heroine, contains all of the stylized goth foreboding of LDR's Born to Die and almost none of the louche, languid glamour. This is not a small thing. Lana Del Rey is a self-created starlet willing herself into stardom but Lorde fancies herself a poet, churning away at the darker recesses of her soul.