Lana Del Rey spent nearly a full year away from the stage before stepping out under the floodlights at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Her set list gathered plenty of the reliable crowd pullers that have anchored her concerts for over a decade, with Video Games, Summertime Sadness, and Young and Beautiful all present. Yet the focal point of the evening arrived when she reached for something completely unplayed, giving the audience their first live hearing of White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter.
The song, shared online this past February, offers the latest glimpse into Stove, her upcoming full length project. In the studio, the track relies on an austere, ghostly arrangement built within a close circle. Del Rey wrote it alongside her husband, her sister, and her brother-in-law, while longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff returned to handle co-production duties.
On stage in Singapore, the visual staging preserved the domestic mood Del Rey has leaned into across recent touring cycles. The platform held a small house fitted with a front porch, surrounded by backing dancers, while Del Rey spent much of the performance singing from a suspended swing. Placing White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter in the middle of that environment offered a clear view of how her newer, minimalist writing rubs against the grander arrangements of her older work.
The road leading toward Stove has been complicated, marked by repeated rethinking. Del Rey first announced the record in January 2024 under the working name Lasso, aiming to deliver it before the close of that year as her first proper full length country venture. Her curiosity about that sound had been apparent for several years prior. In 2021, she revealed that she had cut an entire album covering traditional country songs. By 2023, the impulse showed up repeatedly in public, with stage performances of Stand By Your Man and Unchained Melody, accompanied by a studio recording of Take Me Home, Country Roads.
Her confidence in that exact course wavered during 2024. As the broader commercial music business swerved hard into country, Del Rey took a step back, questioning whether she still wanted to follow the original concept. That hesitation prompted a title change to The Right Person Will Stay, before she settled on Stove. Listeners had already caught early signals of the project last year through the arrival of Henry, Come On and Bluebird, two preview tracks that came ahead of White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter.
Whenever Stove finally surfaces, it will break a recording gap that dates back to her March 2023 album, Did You Know That There Is a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. Further details have trickled out in bits and pieces, including word of an unreleased track titled Stars Fell on Alabama, written about her husband, Jeremy Dufrene, who works as a Louisiana alligator swamp tour guide.
An official release date for Stove is still not on the calendar, but the project has broadened beyond what listeners first anticipated. Del Rey has confirmed an untitled companion record developed alongside it. Taking to Instagram to address the long gestation period, she explained that sitting with the uncertainty ended up producing a separate batch of music altogether, calling both collections some of the strongest work she has ever managed. Bringing the new songs onto foreign festival stages is an early sign of an era finally beginning to move.
