Lana Del Rey

Having recently announced a third album is in the works, and releasing the first single and title track, excitement is at an all time high for Lana Del Rey‘s Honeymoon release. The first taste in the form of the title track was quintessential Lana, but still had us desperate for more – and now she has delivered. Titled High By The Beach, Del Rey has returned once more to deliver her stunning voice and old time glamour.

Officially out August 10, an early version of High By The Beach has surfaced online over the weekend, because the internet exists and that’s just what happens these days. Flirting with electronica even more than ever before, the almost trap style beats intertwine with her golden era voice with the combination becoming almost too sultry and inviting to handle. With lyrics like “You could be a bad motherfucker but that don’t make you a man,” this is Lana Del Rey at her best. Replacing her normal string section with synths is a bold move from Del Rey, but there is something about her that makes us feel warm and full, all the while exposed and vulnerable. It’s safe to say, we can’t wait for Honeymoon to drop!

Lana Del Rey has dropped her new single Honeymoon, which is taken from her upcoming album of the same name. The album has been said to be scheduled to drop sometime in September. She mentioned that the album was going to be “very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise.” Since already having inspiration for the album so soon after Ultraviolence dropped, we’re glad it’s being released without too much of a gap between albums.

The beginning sounds like a song played during a classic Hollywood 1930’s film, probably to portray the deep sadness of a female protagonist after getting her broken. The strings were a good attention grabber, since we aren’t normally confronted with raw strings like this in a pop track nowadays. It’s refreshing.

The slow sound of the song continues in the body of the track. Her voice, haunting as usual, rises above the medley and soaring like a bird in a cloudless sky. The video features a short clip of Del Rey lying in the grass beside a busy road. She is then standing up and quickly glances back at the road. The rest of the video consists of the songs lyrics.

She shared an Instagram post, explaining it’s place in the record and what it means to her:

Here it is, the first and title track off my record – Honeymoon. In some ways I feel it's where the record begins and ends… there are so many other tracks on the record, 13 others to be exact- Some with a muddy trap energy and some inspired by late-night Miles Davis drives… But I love this song because it encapsulates all of the things that come naturally to me. http://lanadel.re/HONEYMOON

A video posted by Honeymoon (@honeymoon) on Jul 14, 2015 at 10:29am PDT

It sounds very Lana Del Rey, meaning she has stuck to her signature sound.