Last evening, at a Signboard occasion, Lana Del Rey disclosed the title, launch month, and category of her following album: Lasso, a country album, is out in September. “If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country. We’re going country. It’s happening,” Del Rey stated, according to Signboard. “That’s why [producer] Jack [Antonoff] has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.”
When gotten to by Pitchfork, Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff’s particular reps had no more remark or info to share on Lasso.
Lana Del Rey has actually been understood to tease cds that do not appear specifically the means she prepared– or do not always appear in any way. As an example, right away adhering to the launch of Chemtrails Over the Country Club, she stated that a follow-up called Rock Sweet Sugary food would certainly show up June 1, 2021. Rather, Blue Banisters appeared October 22.
Regarding cds that have not emerged, Del Rey stated in November 2020 that she would certainly launch “a digital record of American standards and classics for Christmas.” Rather, she shared just a cover of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
Del Rey likewise informed Mojo regarding an in-progress country covers album. “I went back and listened to ‘Ride’ and ‘Video Games’ and thought, you know they’re kind of country,” Del Rey stated. “Maybe the way ‘Video Games’ got remastered, they’re pop—but there’s something Americana about it for sure.”
Regarding her even more current ventures right into c and w, Del Rey, in December, shared her cover of the John Denver staple “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” The cover got here after her united state excursion that concentrated on the South and Appalachia. Furthermore, the vocalist was amongst the entertainers in NBC’s Xmas at Graceland, shot at Elvis Presley’s renowned Memphis estate. For the unique, she sang “Unchained Melody.”
Lasso will certainly adhere to Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s a Passage Under Sea Blvd, which you can review at No. 11 in Pitchfork’s “The 50 Best Albums of 2023.”