Lana Del Rey talks “angry” and “conversational” new music

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Lana Del Rey has discussed the creative approach she’s taking to the new music she’s working on at the moment.In an interview with fashion magazine W, the singer-songwriter said she had been practicing “meditative automatic singing, where I don’t filter anything”, singing directly into her phone’s Voice Notes app. “It’s not perfect, obviously,” she said. “There are pauses, and I stumble.”Del Rey says she’s been sending these “really raw-sounding files” to producer and songwriter Drew Erickson, who Del Rey collaborated significantly with on last year’s ‘Blue Banisters’.

Erickson has songwriting and production credits on the songs ‘Arcadia’, ‘Black Bathing Suit’, ‘If You Lie Down with Me’, ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Violets for Roses’.

He also played piano on multiple tracks, as well as bass and synthesiser, and is credited with composing selected horn and string arrangements on the album.“He’ll add an orchestra beneath the words, matching each syllable with music and adding reverb to my voice,” Del Rey explains in the W piece.

As a point of contrast, Del Rey says that while her 2015 album ‘Honeymoon’ featured many references to colour, her new music contained “none of that at all”.“It’s more just like: I’m angry.