Lana Del Rey, “West Coast”

Here is “West Coast,” Lana’s new single, and she’s in her sweet spot, kittenish Americana in a dislocated haze: you could separate this melody and peg phrases to different decades. (A lot would go to Heart, and that ooh, baby, ooh is straight out of “Edge of Seventeen.”) I like this, and I love the beat that gets it going, like a single Turrell light flashing in an empty room. (Video is just a loop of Lana in her other sweet spot: twirling.)

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