Following a year of taking it easy, Lana Del Rey returned at the tail end of 2022 with the title track to her upcoming ninth studio album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?” After throwing up a billboard in her ex’s home town, Lana is back to focusing on herself.
That well-placed billboard is the only public statement that Del Rey has made about the new album, but we do have a confirmed release date of March 10th and a whole host of collaborators that will appear on the new LP, including Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, and SYML.
After dropping two albums, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” and “Blue Bannisters”, over the course of 2021, Del Rey took a full year to craft her newest album. From the brief previews we’ve heard, it sounds like “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?” is going to be another album of lush and thorny music, which is all we could ask for from Lana Del Rey.
Lana Del Rey has said her ninth studio album will be “very wordy”, and that during recording she practised “meditative automatic singing”, whereby she’d record whatever came to mind as a voice note on her phone and send it to producer Drew Erickson to add orchestration. The album is set to feature collaborations with Jon Batiste, Father John Misty, Tommy Genesis, and SYML, as well as production from LDR regular Jack Antonoff, among others. As for its extremely long title? That’s likely a reference to the Jergins Tunnel in Long Beach, California, which once connected the city’s Downtown area to its beach.
Lana Del Rey references her family in the title of the third single from her new album, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”.
‘Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd’ The New Album Out March 10th,
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