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Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass

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Lana Del Rey - Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass on LP vinyl. A 2020 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP ยท 2020

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 2020 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass is the unusual Lana Del Rey release that makes the voice the event without making it sing in the usual way. Issued in 2020 as a spoken-word companion to her poetry collection, it sits between album, audiobook and literary performance. Jack Antonoff's music does not try to turn the poems into conventional songs. Instead, it gives them a soft frame: piano, ambience, faint movement and enough atmosphere to let Del Rey's phrasing carry the emotional centre. The pieces feel close to her songwriting world but not identical to it. LA Who Am I To Love You, The Land of 1,000 Fires, SportCruiser and the title piece bring forward the same concerns that run through her catalogue: California, self-invention, femininity, disappointment, travel, romance, faith in beauty and the ache of trying to make an inner life legible. The difference is space. Without verse-chorus pressure, images arrive more openly and sometimes more awkwardly, which is part of the appeal. As a catalogue object, it is fascinating because it shows the literary root system beneath the songs. It may not behave like a standard Lana album, but it explains a great deal about how her music thinks.

The release matters because it makes explicit the poetic impulse that had always been present in Del Rey's songwriting. Rather than treating lyrics as decoration for melody, Violet asks the listener to sit with cadence, image and spoken intimacy. It also marks a 2020 pivot point between Norman Fucking Rockwell! and the more diaristic albums that followed.

This is for collectors who want the edges of the Lana Del Rey catalogue, not only the studio-album spine. It works best beside her books, ballads and late-period records, where the emphasis falls on voice, language and atmosphere. The appeal is not conventional replay value; it is the chance to hear her aesthetic stripped down to breath, text and carefully placed musical shadow.

Spoken-word poetry over sparse piano and ambient backing, with intimate pacing, Californian imagery, literary self-reflection and a soft nocturnal mood.

Recommended for: Lana Del Rey completists interested in her poetry and spoken voice; Collectors of literary, spoken-word and artist-poet vinyl; Listeners who value atmosphere and language over conventional song structure.

Is Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass a normal studio album? No. It is a spoken-word poetry release with music, connected to Del Rey's book of the same name. Does Jack Antonoff appear on the project? Yes. The poems are accompanied by music from Jack Antonoff, giving the readings a restrained atmospheric frame. Who should buy this record? It is best for dedicated Lana listeners, spoken-word collectors and anyone interested in the poetic side of her songwriting.