Unreleased The Last Shadow Puppets Collaboration (album)

Recorded	2017
Length	Unknown
Producer(s)	Lana Del Rey Alex Turner Miles Kane James Ford Zach Dawes

Unreleased The Last Shadow Puppets Collaboration is an unreleased album by Lana Del Rey and the English supergroup The Last Shadow Puppets, consisting of Alex Turner, Miles Kane, James Ford and Zach Dawes, recorded in 2017. Many details regarding the project, including its title, are not known.

Background

On September 6, 2019, in an interview for NME magazine, Del Rey spoke about how "California" was written and produced, mentioning that she and the group created a whole album during this process, with "California" being part of it, but later reused for Norman Fucking Rockwell!.

"We had a little rock band on the side,” she explains. “It kind of didn’t go anywhere but we had a good time." Then she casually slips into conversation that the group, which also included Kane, made a whole album together. “It’s never…” she begins when asked when we can hear it. “We were very messy! But it’s cool ‘California’ made it on there – I feel like it’s a little piece of our friendship band."

Currently, it is unknown how many songs were recorded for the album. On June 15, 2020, when "Thunder" leaked, it was confirmed by insiders to be part of the project and that 4 mixes were recorded, the first mix being the leaked one. Other speculated titles by insiders are "Dope", which was described as an unfinished song, and "Under Your Skin".

"Loaded", a song by Miles Kane featuring background vocals by Del Rey, is also speculated to be part of this project and later used for his third solo studio album, Coup de Grace.

Upon leaking in September 2021, "Dealer" was confirmed by a reliable insider to have originated from this project, and appears unchanged on Blue Banisters.

A version of "Yes to Heaven" produced by James Ford in 2017 is said to exist, meant for both the said unreleased album with The Last Shadow Puppets as well as Chemtrails Over the Country Club.

As of November 2021, the album's tracklist has yet to leak. It's also unknown whether the album actually had a proper tracklist, as its also possible that the project was abandoned without a proper consensus on one.

Kane did an interview in January 2022 where he confirmed Dealer and Loaded came from the same recording session, saying “We did so many songs [...] I think I was sorting flirting about putting it on an album, then she was, and then I got a call a few months back where she said she wanted to stick that out,” he says about the Blue Banisters track.

Kane added: “That was the one song from the demo’s we did that had something really special, and it’s so real. The way she comes in and soars on her vocal is something that I think nobody has ever heard before. I like that she’s just kept it as the original demo we did when we wrote it.”

Elaborating on how much they wrote together during those sessions, Kane adds, “There’s quite a lot, y’know. Probably enough for an album, we’d still need to finish some bits off, but there’s definitely some completed tunes.”

Confirmed songs

• "California"
• "Dealer"
• "Dope"
• "Thunder"
• "Yes to Heaven"

Possible songs

• "Under Your Skin"
• "Loaded"