Over the course of three albums, Lana Del Rey hasn't so much expanded her delicately sculpted persona as she has refined it, removing anything extraneous to her exquisite ennui. Honeymoon doesn't drift or float, but rather it marks time, sometimes swelling with a suggestion of impending melodrama. But underneath the dragging beats and austere arrangements, there's something approaching triumph. Where she seemed weighted down by existential sorrow on her first two albums, Honeymoon seems comfortingly melancholic and that's the truest sign that it's the fullest execution her grand plan.
The record features the singles "High by the Beach" and "Music to Watch Boys To".