Lana Crow’s third album In Spirit showcases the artist at her most ambitious and liberating as she looks to find a true sense of purpose
With the release of her new third album In Spirit, UK alternative pop artist Lana Crow has showcased some of the most ambitious and conceptually immersive work of her career to date, with the collection of 7 tracks doing offering a really varied and vibrant showcase of her innate talent and craft as an artist.
The album opens with ‘I Do’, a track with pounding rhythms that unfolds as a sobering realisation that you have lost your way along the noise and chaos of modern life, with a dreamy and intoxicating soundscape to match it. The track does a great job of ushering in the journey that the able takes you on, with the first stage of her journey being the realisation that you have messed up in the past.
The more alternative-tinged ‘Orwellian Times’ follows, a track that as guided by an engrossing guitar riff that pairs nicely with a frustrated narrative that explores the way that the world feels so corrupt and broken, with all of us along for the ride and indoctrinated along the way, just like she has been.
‘No Secret Follows’, a track that has been repurposed for this album after being a part of her 2025 release Live It, and it slots nicely into this album and this narrative with its nostalgic look back on better times providing a stark contrast to the tracks that explore the more troubling modern times. The artist’s vocals here feel engaged and vibrant as she looks back with a real fondness at a more carefree world.
This is contrasted again by the moodier and more atmospheric tone of ‘So Done’, a track that sees the frustrations of modern life and the feeling that it strives to kick you when you’re down show back up. There is a really intense feel to Lana’s vocals here as she hones in on themes like celebrity culture, society and how overwhelming it feels to be constantly told who you should be and how you should be them.
The fiery and hard-hitting ‘Unknow The Known’ follows and examines the ways that we could try to unlearn all of the toxicity and troubling behaviours that modern life has seen us grow so accustomed to, utilising the heaviness of its soundscape to make a real impact as she hopes to free herself from these shackles and ponders everything going on beneath the surface that we don’t know.
The final two tracks feel like that breakthrough from the artist, unfolding in two parts. ‘What Brings You Back’ is a really catchy and thoughtful release that feels like that initial moment of realisation, that the big picture is right in front of you and its scope and magnitude is far beyond what you imagined. Whereas the more composed and slick ‘In Spirit’ feels like almost an acceptance of that, a track that acknowledges all this but opts to embrace spirituality and carving out your own path rather than get bogged down and suffocated by it all, freeing yourself from these reigns in your own way and shielding yourself from the damage in the best and most effective way that you can.
