Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow

I wrote you a note, but I didn't send it, Lana Del Rey sings on her rangy ninth album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd a 16-song, 78-minute collection as sprawling, hypnotic and incorrigibly American as an interstate highway.Many of the tracks have the run-on, handwritten feel of letters never mailed, and this particular one, the fluttering piano ballad Sweet, is addressed to a paramour who seems unwilling to go as deep as the 37-year-old Del Rey.

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