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“Oops! Hello!” Lana Del Rey is back, for sure. The singer-songwriter officially returns with “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” from her upcoming album Stove.
Sparse instrumentation and first insights
“White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” features sparse instrumentation, save for a few magical string arrangements. On Monday (February 16, 2026), Del Rey posted an excerpt from “White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” with the comment: “I imagine you know how bad I am with an oven………………………..”
Del Rey announced the song title via her Instagram Story on February 10, declaring it her “favorite song” from “Stove.” “This is the song I’ve been waiting for,” she said, adding that it was co-produced by Drew Erickson and Jack Antonoff and co-written with her husband Jeremy Dufrene, her brother-in-law and her sister Caroline “Chuck” Grant.
Release of “Stove” still open
She also addressed the topic of “Stove”‘s release date, explaining, “Honestly, soon. Because vinyl takes three months, so three months plus two weeks. It could be a little less, more or less.” Whenever it arrives, it will be a day of celebration for Del Rey fans who have been feverishly awaiting her tenth studio album since her last album, 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
“White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter” arrives ten months after the singles “Henry, Come On” and “Bluebird” (and six months after Del Rey released a snippet of songs with pointed lyrics about Ethel Cain). When Del Rey released “Henry” in April 2025, “Stove” was still titled “The Right Person Will Stay” (previously the working title was “Lasso”). The album was originally scheduled for May 2025 before she officially postponed it and went back into the studio to continue working on it.
Background to the previous singles
With “Henry, Come On” and “Bluebird,” Del Rey had already given the first sonic clues about the direction of “Stove.” Both songs marked a new phase in the album’s creative process.
The project’s multiple shifts and renaming – from “Lasso” to “The Right Person Will Stay” to “Stove” – underscores how hard Del Rey worked on her tenth studio album.
