Lana Del Rey announces new spoken word album: ‘It’s my own reparative act’

Artist is also releasing a book of poetry, following her latest album ‘Norman F***ing Rockwell!’

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Lana Del Rey has announced her plans for a new “freestyle poetry” spoken word album.

The Norman F***ing Rockwell! artist revealed the news in an Instagram video, in which she explained that half of the new LP’s proceeds will benefit Native American organisations.

“I knew I wanted the album to be around a dollar because I just love the idea that thoughts are meant to be shared and that they were priceless in some way,” she said.

“And there was a second part that I had been thinking of before releasing it, which was that I wanted half of what the spoken word album was going for to benefit Native American organisations around the country, whether it was for preserving their rights or trying to help keep their land intact.”

She continued: “I had wanted to do it because in doing my own work in connecting to my own family lineage I was encouraged to also try to connect to the country’s lineage.

“This was a while ago, and it kind of informed the next album that I’d been working on. And I just really wanted to sort of pay homage to the country that I love so much by doing my own reparation. I guess I would say, my own reparative act.

“So I know it’s a bit of an unusual choice and I have no reasoning for it other than it just feels right to me. And so for as long as my album, my spoken word album is distributed, half of it will be going to Native American organisations across America.”

Del Rey described the album as “more gritty” and said the contents would be more like freestyle poetry than songs.

The new album will be released on 4 January. Del Rey’s latest album, Norman F***ing Rockwell!, was released earlier this year to critical acclaim. Read The Independent‘s review here.