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Lana Del Rey has offered an update on her long-awaited new album, which is now titled Stove and set to arrive in early 2026.
The album, which will be Del Rey’s 10th, was first slated for release in September 2024 under the title Lasso. It was later renamed The Right Person Will Stay with a target date of May 2025. Now, Del Rey has retitled the project once more — this time as Stove. She attributed the latest postponement to her decision to add six more songs to the tracklist. “They were more autobiographical than I thought, and that took more time,” she explained.
Del Rey also confirmed that the album “will have a country flair,” telling W, “Eight years ago, when I was looking to make a country record, no one else was thinking about country. Now everyone is going country! I’ve asked myself, ‘Should I retire all my snakeskin boots? Should I put my cowboy hats in storage?'” She’s been working on the project with legendary country producer Luke Laird along with Jack Antonoff.
Of the songs included on the album, Del Rey said “Stars Fell on Alabama” is about her husband, Jeremy Dufrene. “Jeremy is the most impactful person in my life. He’s quiet in public, but around me he talks all the time,” Del Rey explained. She went on to relay an anecdote about their “parking-lot time.”
“We spend so much time in parking lots, just reading or talking in the car. Sometimes, in life, you think you’re the only one in the world who loves a particular thing, like sitting in an empty Macy’s or Home Depot parking lot. You might be really weird to some people, but then you find another soul who feels the same way.”
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