Black Vinyl EP Pressing

Paradise, 2012’s eight-song mini album, follows up Del Rey’s enormously successful Born To Die. Del Rey has described herself as a “gangsta Nancy Sinatra” and cites Britney Spears, Thomas Newman and Bruce Springsteen as her musical influences. The singer’s direct influences were visual as well as musical — David Lynch, soundtracks for ’50s black & white movies, the whirring sound of the Ferris Wheel at Coney Island and fame itself.

Released: 11/13/12