Lana Del Rey premieres new album title track ‘Honeymoon’
By Will Stroude
Lana Del Rey has premiered the title track from her upcoming third studio album Honeymoon.
The 29-year-old dropped the track unannounced onto her YouTube channel this afternoon, having previously teased fans with a brief snippet last month (June).
The typically moody track features some gloriously incomprehensible new Lana Del Rey-isms, including “It’s no wonder every man in town had neither fought nor found you / everything you do is elusive to even your honey dew”.
Preceded by a brief video introduction in classic Lana vintage film style, the track itself is very reminiscent of her work on last album Ultraviolence, despite her previous insistence that the new record would mark a return to the sound of her debut LP, Born to Die.
“It’s very different from the last one [Ultraviolence] and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise,” she said.
She continued: “I finished my last one in March and released it in June and I had a follow-up idea. It’s growing into something I really like. I’m kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It’s been good.”
Del Rey revealed back in May that she had recorded two videos for future singles, adding that the album would be a “beautiful futureretro [sic]” record.
Honeymoon will serve as the follow-up to 2014’s Ultraviolence, which topped the UK albums chart upon its release last June, and spawned singles including West Coast and Shades of Cool.
Listen to the album’s title track in full below:
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