Despite self-propagated rumours that she is retiring from music, Lana Del Rey has released a new video out of nowhere for her cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel No. 2”, his ode to one-time lover and ill-fated blues howler Janis Joplin. LDR is well inside her visual safe-zone with the flickery Super 8 nostalgia-gram look that is the signature of her music-video oeuvre.
