Lana Del Rey Teases New Nation Album Lasso
Final night time, at a Billboard occasion, Lana Del Rey revealed the title, launch month, and style of her subsequent album: Lasso, a rustic album, is out in September. “If you happen to can’t already inform by our award winners and our performers, the music enterprise goes nation. We’re going nation. It’s occurring,” Del Rey mentioned, in keeping with Billboard. “That’s why [producer] Jack [Antonoff] has adopted me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the past 4 years.”
When reached by Pitchfork, Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff’s respective representatives had no additional remark or data to share on Lasso.
Lana Del Rey has been identified to tease albums that don’t come out precisely the way in which she deliberate—or don’t essentially come out in any respect. As an example, instantly following the discharge of Chemtrails Over the Nation Membership, she mentioned {that a} follow-up referred to as Rock Sweet Candy would arrive June 1, 2021. As an alternative, Blue Banisters got here out October 22.
So far as albums that haven’t materialized, Del Rey mentioned in November 2020 that she’d launch “a digital report of American requirements and classics for Christmas.” As an alternative, she shared solely a canopy of “You’ll By no means Stroll Alone.”
Del Rey additionally advised Mojo about an in-progress nation covers album. “I went again and listened to ‘Experience’ and ‘Video Video games’ and thought, you realize they’re form of nation,” Del Rey mentioned. “Perhaps the way in which ‘Video Video games’ received remastered, they’re pop—however there’s one thing Americana about it for positive.”
So far as her more moderen forays into nation music, Del Rey, in December, shared her cowl of the John Denver staple “Take Me Dwelling, Nation Roads.” The quilt arrived after her U.S. tour that targeted on the South and Appalachia. As well as, the singer was among the many performers in NBC’s Christmas at Graceland, filmed at Elvis Presley’s iconic Memphis property. For the particular, she sang “Unchained Melody.”
Lasso will observe Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd, which you’ll be able to examine at No. 11 in Pitchfork’s “The 50 Finest Albums of 2023.”