Lana Del Rey‘s 10th album is on the way — and now we know one of the collaborators working on it. In a new interview with Time, Jack Antonoff confirmed that he’s once again working with Del Rey for her forthcoming LP Lasso — but declined to give more details about the project.
“We have… yeah,” he said when asked if the pair of musicians had been in the studio together for the album. “[It’s] a story for another time. The reason why I don’t talk about things until they’re out is very succinct: I like to let the music be the first entry point for people.”
“I don’t want to rob anyone of their experience of hearing it without context,” he added. “The second you start talking about work that is coming, you’re planting these seeds in people’s head.”
Antonoff has been working with Del Rey for some time now, with the pair of musicians first linking up on 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell, then 2021’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club in 2021, and again last year for Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
Del Rey first announced that she would be releasing a country-leaning project during Grammys week in January, revealing its name as Lasso. (She said at the time it would drop in September.)
“If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country,” she told the crowd. “We’re going country. It’s happening. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years.”
Speaking to Vogue last month, Del Rey explained that the project won’t be that much of a “departure” from her past music.
“All my albums are somewhat rooted in Americana, unless it’s an album like Honeymoon which has a jazz flair, so I don’t think it will be a heavy departure,” she told the publication. “If anything, it will just be a little lighter lyrically, and more pointed in a classic country, American, or Southern Gothic production — which again, so many of my songs already are.”
The star’s latest single was the country-tinged “Tough” featuring Quavo over the summer. To Vogue, Del Rey said she would release two more tracks “by the end of the year.”
The news of Antonoff’s work on the project comes just days after People confirmed that Del Rey had tied the knot with Jeremy Dufrene, who operates swamp boat tours in Louisiana. (The pair has known each other since 2019, although they reconnected earlier this year, according to the outlet.)
From Rolling Stone US
