Lana Del Rey has surfaced with “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter,” a stark, slow-burning new single that suggests her next chapter will be as mythic as it is intimate. Released Tuesday via Interscope Records, the track arrives with little warning but plenty of atmosphere.
Written alongside her sister Chuck Grant, brother-in-law Jason Pickens, and husband Jeremy Dufrene, the song reads like a piece of Americana folklore filtered through Del Rey’s trademark melancholy. The title alone feels like a short story — pastoral, violent, spiritual — and the production leans into that tension. Del Rey co-produced the track with longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff, with co-production and sweeping string arrangements by Drew Erickson. Mixing duties were handled by Dean Reid and Laura Sisk, giving the track a burnished, analog warmth that underscores its confessional tone.
While Del Rey has yet to formally detail the album it belongs to, she teased on Instagram earlier this month that a new full-length is due in roughly three months. If “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” is any indication, the project may pivot further into pastoral minimalism — less neon noir, more open sky and reckoning.
For an artist who has long blurred the line between autobiography and mythmaking, the single feels like both a return and a recalibration: a reminder that Lana Del Rey’s America has always been haunted — and she’s still mapping its backroads.
Listen to the track here or below via the track video.
