Lana Del Rey Just Wants to Get ‘High by the Beach’

It doesn’t matter what style she’s dabbling in, however, she always finds a way to make it unmistakably LDR.

“High By The Beach” stands out as one of those fusion tracks that Lana Del Rey was known for on her “Born To Die” album.

There’s no reason thoughts like these couldn’t creep into someone’s mind on a honeymoon vacation, and with references to the beach, it seems pretty likely that this song could just represent a rough patch in an overall dramatic but very intense relationship.

“It started with the chorus”. “The harmony nearly sounded monotone”. “We both know the history of violence that surrounds you”, she sings over strings and piano.

Lana Del Rey stopped by Beats 1 radio to talk with Zane Lowe and share her new track, “High By the Beach”, off her upcoming LP, Honeymoon – set for release only a year after her immensely acclaimed album, Ultraviolence.

The singer revealed the album title to Billboard in January.

Annie Mac asked her about a picture that Rey had posted to Twitter of her posing with a huge gun-“It was a gun that one of the guys on the art department team gilded with gold and made it electronic, so it came alive”. I didn’t think it would turn into an entirely new record, but by January I’d written three-quarters of a record, and it felt really good.

The track was released on iTunes and premiered worldwide this Sunday. I wasn’t feeling too exhausted, still feeling inspired like I could keep going.