Lana Del Rey has released a new single, “Honeymoon,” from an LP forthcoming in September:

The song is the title track from her upcoming third album and is a departure from the psychedelic guitar numbers that lined 2014’s “Ultraviolence,” which was mostly produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. The arrangement this time is noticeably jazzier, suggesting that her upcoming work could deviate from the ’60s pop sound she’s favored in the past.

You might say that Lana’s so prog she doesn’t do concept albums, she’s so meta she’s a concept artist — a continually self-manufactured ironic persona. What’s interesting is that with her the irony is never simply a one-dimensional surface-exploration trick. There’s always something more beneath the artfully constructed surface.

Perhaps her tragic diva persona works best with orchestra and strings, but then again “West Coast” from Ultraviolence was actually a top-notch mellow groove pop single.