Lana Del Rey – White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter
Lana Del Rey’s tenth album Stove has had a complicated road — originally announced as Lasso for September 2024, then renamed The Right Person Will Stay with a May 2025 date, then pushed again to January 2026 and renamed once more. Still no confirmed release date, though Del Rey has said to expect it in roughly three months given vinyl lead times. “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” is the third single from it, following “Henry, Come On” and “Bluebird”, and Del Rey called it her favorite song off the record. “This is the one I’ve been waiting for”, she said. “I’m really happy about it”.
Written as a family collaboration — husband Jeremy Dufrene, sister Chuck Grant, and brother-in-law Jason Pickens all co-wrote it with her — the track is produced by Del Rey and Jack Antonoff, with Drew Erickson handling co-production and the string arrangements, and mixing from Dean Reid and Laura Sisk. The song also samples Ella Fitzgerald’s “Laura”. Structurally it sits closer to “A&W” than anything country-adjacent: Del Rey barely sings in the conventional sense, delivering most of the verses in a near-whispered spoken cadence over ominous, layered orchestral strings. The tone is gothic and cinematic, the subject matter love-drunk and domestic — she’s writing about her husband, about cooking, about a life that feels settled after years of uncertainty. “Everyone knows I’ve had some trouble”, she sings, “but it’s been three summers / I know it’s strange to see me cooking for my husband”. Psychedelic and unsettling at the same time, with a chorus that breaks the mood entirely with “Whoopsie daisy, yoo-hoo” before diving back under.
Del Rey released the song on February 17, timed — per her label’s promotional materials — to coincide with the start of the Year of the Horse.
