“Mariners Apartment Complex” by Lana Del Rey

"Mariners Apartment Complex" was the first taste of Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey's sixth album, arriving as its lead single on Polydor and Interscope in September 2018, nearly a year before the record itself. She wrote it with Jack Antonoff after walking late one night with her partner of the time, and the two produced it together, Antonoff playing drums, piano, synthesizer and both acoustic and electric guitar.

It's a slow-rolling ballad that folds soft rock, country and psychedelic folk into one haze, its narrator promising a lover steady support and a guiding hand through a relationship as lovely as it is troubled. Critics praised the writing, the production and her singing, Rolling Stone and Consequence of Sound named it among 2018's best songs, and it reached national charts from Australia to Sweden and the UK.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.