--- description: The first single from the singer's upcoming album, Ultraviolence, has all the makings of her signature sound, plus a few new tricks title: Lana Del Rey returns with "West Coast": Listen image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lana Del Rey Returns With "West Coast": Listen  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 14, 2014 2:57 PM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 14, 2014 2:57 PM CUT It’s only right that during the most important music event on the West Coast — [the Coachella music festival](http://time.com/60809/jay-z-beyonce-coachella/ "undefined") — pop music’s endlessly polarizing flower child Lana Del Rey [debuted a new song](http://www.complex.com/music/2014/04/lana-del-rey-debuts-west-coast "undefined") inspired by that very place. “West Coast,” the first single from Del Rey’s upcoming album, _Ultraviolence_, has all the makings of a signature Lana Del Rey tack: brooding, velvety vocals; a few sparse guitar twangs; a continued obsession with America’s most iconic proper nouns; and a video that looks shot on Instagram. Earlier this month, the leak of a disco-infused Lana Del Rey song, [“Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight,”](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lana-del-rey-heads-to-the-disco-on-meet-me-in-the-pale-moonlight-20140403 "undefined") suggested the singer might be injecting her wistful shtick with a dash of Studio 54 glamour, but the only new sonic developments here are the laid-back track’s shifting tempos and windier production, likely courtesy of The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, with whom she’s collaborating on _Ultraviolence_. Fans will probably be pleased with the song’s springtime dose of some [summertime sadness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjsGKrE6E8 "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/61530/lana-del-rey-west-coast/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/61530/lana-del-rey-west-coast/"},"headline":"Lana Del Rey Returns With \"West Coast\": Listen","datePublished":"2014-04-14T14:57:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:17:26.373Z","description":"The first single from the siren's upcoming album, Ultraviolence, has all the makings of her signature sound — plus a few new tricks","url":"https://time.com/61530/lana-del-rey-west-coast/","keywords":["Music","Lana Del Rey"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/61530/lana-del-rey-west-coast/","name":"Lana Del Rey Returns With \"West Coast\": Listen"}}]}] ```