Ultraviolence by Lana Del Rey

Ultraviolence, Lana Del Rey's third studio album, arrived on June 13, 2014, through Polydor and Interscope, from a singer who had once waved off the idea of making another record after Born to Die. She had what she thought was a finished album when she brought in Dan Auerbach to rework it, with Greg Kurstin, Rick Nowels and Paul Epworth also on hand.

Out went the trip-hop gloss; in came guitars, rawer vocals and a slow, smoky psychedelic rock sound that drifts toward dream pop, desert rock and slowcore. "West Coast" is the heart of it, all woozy heat haze, with "Shades of Cool", the title track and "Brooklyn Baby" following it out as singles. It opened at number one in eleven countries, the US among them, with 182,000 copies in its first week, the biggest opening of her career.

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