On ‘Bluebird,’ Lana Del Rey Sings a Sweet Warning – The New York Times

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Produced by Kate LoPresti
Edited by Frannie Carr Toth
Engineered by Rowan Niemisto
Original music by Dan Powell
Hosted by Jon Pareles
Jon Pareles, the chief pop music critic of The New York Times, recommends five recently released songs to listen to this weekend. They include a spooky ballad, some very twisted pop and, as usual, some love gone wrong.
Lana Del Rey, “Bluebird”
Madison McFerrin, “I Don’t”
Grumpy featuring claire rousay and Pink Must, “Harmony”
Carín León, Diego El Cigala and Chanela Clicka, “Te Quiero y Me Miento”
Matmos, “Changing States"
Jon Pareles is the chief pop music critic at The Times.
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Jon Pareles has been The Times’s chief pop music critic since 1988. He studied music, played in rock, jazz and classical groups and was a college-radio disc jockey. He was previously an editor at Rolling Stone and the Village Voice.
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