Lana Del Rey Says Country Album ‘Lasso’ Won’t Be a ‘Heavy Departure’ From Her Current Sound

Lana Del Rey has been teasing for months that her next album Lasso will be a country record, but if you’re wary about yet another superstar going the rootsier route, fear not — the alt-pop star promises it won’t be all that much different from her past work.

In a new interview with Vogue ahead of her headlining set at Paris’ Rock en Seine music festival Wednesday (Aug. 21), Del Rey gave assurances that her signature sound will still anchor her upcoming project. “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.”

Though it doesn’t yet have a set release date, Lasso will follow last year’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd?, which reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200. Del Rey originally told fans to expect the new project this September, announcing its title in January at the Billboard x NMPA Songwriter Awards. (“We’re going country,” she said at the time. “It’s happening.”)

Since Ocean Blvd, the “Summertime Sadness” musician has released a smattering of singles, including “Say Yes to Heaven,” “Lost at Sea” and “Hollywood Bowl” with her father, Rob Grant, “Suburban House” with Holly Macve and a cover of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Most recently, she dropped “Tough” with Quavo, which she says she’ll follow up with not one, but two more singles in the next few months.

While speaking to Vogue, she teased: “We have two more coming out by the end of the year!”