No, that isn’t Lana Del Rey’s dad recreating her Norman Fucking Rockwell cowl artwork — that’s Rob Grant debuting his very personal album cowl.
On Thursday, Grant — the daddy of the beloved “Video Video games” songstress — introduced that he’ll be releasing Misplaced at Sea, his first-ever album of piano songs, on June 9. He additionally revealed that he’ll drop the mission’s first single “Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon” on Friday at midnight.
Hours earlier than the announcement, Del Rey wrote on Instagram: “That is both gonna be the start of one thing lovely or take us all down… Could the drive be w all of us. I imply let’s get actual – he’s all the time been the star.”
The brand new album is ready to characteristic two songs, “Misplaced at Sea” and “Hollywood Bowl,” with vocals from his daughter.
With the brand new launch, Grant signed to Decca Data, which has taken on a number of piano-focused artists, reminiscent of Max Richter and Jeff Goldblum. The brand new music — all that includes Grant on piano — can be set to characteristic manufacturing from Del Rey’s longtime producer Jack Antonoff, amongst others.
In an announcement, Grant mentioned that he wrote “Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon” in regards to the “happiness and freedom I felt” whereas crusing in his boat named “Erewhon” to go to Nantucket and Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts.
“The piano begins slowly after which builds because the sails fill with wind, and the boat begins to heal, leaning into the heavy Atlantic swells,” he defined. “The piano carries you ahead because the sloop positive aspects velocity, catching extra wind, sure for the distant horizon.”
A press launch for the brand new file described Grant as “an unintended recording artist” who has “by no means had a lesson on any instrument in his life.”
“He can’t learn sheet music. However when he sits down at a piano, notes circulate from him. Melodies come unbidden,” the discharge reads. “He can play for hours. Emotion overwhelms thought, and out pours composition after composition.”
The album will come out simply a number of weeks after Del Rey releases her personal album Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Below Ocean Blvd. in late March. The LP options her latest single “A&W,” together with tracks that includes the likes of Bleachers, Jon Batiste, Tommy Genesis, and Father John Misty.
Within the background of a video from the Grant household’s TikTok @familyheirlooms, Del Rey could possibly be heard saying, “That’s who you’re. You’re the sea. And the ocean is you. There’s no separating you two,” as Chuck Grant, Del Rey’s sister, took pictures of their father Rob on a ship for the album cowl.
Misplaced at Sea tracklist
1. Moon Rise Over the Ocean
2. Setting Sail on a Distant Horizon
3. Misplaced at Sea feat. Lana Del Rey
4. The Texture of Goals
5. The Poetry of Wind and Waves
6. A Lovely Delirium
7. Deep Ocean Swells
8. My Deep Blue Dream
9. Reflections of Mild on Water
10. Within the Dying Mild of Day: Requiem for Mom Earth
11. A Delicate Mist Surrounds Me
12. The Mermaids Lullaby
13. Music of the Everlasting Sea
14. Hollywood Bowl feat. Lana Del Rey