Lana Del Rey has given another update on her long-teased new country album. In a new interview with Lynn Hirschberg, for W, it’s revealed that the album is now called Stove, and it “will likely be released at the end of January.”
Del Rey first announced her follow-up to 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd at the beginning of last year. At the time, she said the album was called Lasso and that it was due for a September 2024 release. She eventually changed the album’s title to The Right Person Will Stay and said it would land on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. According to W, the album was, in fact, due to arrive in the spring, but Del Rey added six more songs to it as she continued to work on the record.
“They were more autobiographical than I thought, and that took more time,” Del Rey said of the additional songs. “The majority of the album will have a country flair. 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?”
Elsewhere in the new interview, Del Rey revealed that she wrote a song for Stove about her husband, the Louisiana alligator swamp tour guide Jeremy Dufrene. “I open my show with that song,” she said of the track, “Stars Fell on Alabama.” “Jeremy is the most impactful person in my life. He’s quiet in public, but around me he talks all the time.”
Del Rey sang “Stars Fell on Alabama” (also known as “Husband of Mine”) and other new songs at the Stagecoach festival in April. She’s released two singles this year—“Henry, Come On” and “Bluebird”—both of which are thought to feature on the new country album, but neither is mentioned in the new W article.
