Del Rey sings ode to a tunnel

Lana Del Rey is back and she’s got Southern California on her mind once again.

The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter dropped a new single on Wednesday, “Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd,” the title track from her ninth studio album, due March 10.

A mournful, slow-rolling piano ballad lacquered with glossy old-Hollywood strings, the song appears to have been inspired by “a long-forgotten Art Deco pedestrian tunnel,” as the Los Angeles Times described it in 1992, in Long Beach.