At the beginning of her European tour, which started in Dublin, she premiered her cover of Sublime’s ‘Doin’ Time’, the band’s 1996 single. It was during this gig that she announced the impending arrival of her new studio work. Regarding the album, she expressed to the attending crowd, “I hope you like the new record”.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t listen to at least one Sublime song” Del Rey remarked about the Sublime cover track. “They epitomised the SoCal vibe and made a genre and sound totally their own”

At the beginning of the year, the 34 year old singer released ‘hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me…, but I have it’, a single set to be included on the upcoming Rockwell album. Other songs from the forthcoming project include ‘Venice Bitch’, and ‘Mariner’s Apartment Complex’.

Meanwhile, Lana has also expressed interest in releasing a book of poems, which she’s titled ‘Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass’. In April, the singer posted on Instagram, half written, half typed quotes that may be featured in the book. Del Rey has gone on to say that the copies of the new book will be sold for only one dollar each, with her reasoning being, “Because my thoughts are priceless”.

Lana is set to return for a performance at Latitude Festival on July 21. The cover of Sublime’s ‘Doin’ Time’ is set to be featured in a documentary on the band from Long Beach, California, entitled ‘Sublime’, with the film premiering in April at the Tribeca Film Festival.