Unlike her previous two releases, the photo wasn't taken at a music video shoot. The black and white cover shows Del Rey standing by the open door of a car with "Ultraviolence" written in all caps in the same font as Born to Die and Paradise. The album art for Ultraviolence was unveiled on Del Rey's official Tumblr on May 9, 2014. Del Rey later posted it to her Facebook page. The tracklisting for the album was revealed on on. It was later confirmed that the title was " Money Power Glory". On May 3, 2014, a title was revealed in an interview with a French magazine called “Money, Power & Glory”. She performed a snippet of the song before opening the show with " Cola". On April 19, 2014, during a show at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, Del Rey revealed a new song titled " Cruel World", calling it her favorite song from the album. On May 8, Fnac confirmed that the release date has been set for June 13, 2014. While leaving a nightclub in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, she stated to various reporters during a short interview about Ultraviolence that the album would be released on May 1, although there was no official confirmation from her label. The first announcement of the record was made at the premiere of Del Rey's short film, Tropico, at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on December 4, 2013. They're really low-key and stripped back, all sort of West Coast-inspired." But yeah, I'm writing songs that I really like right now. She added, she was working on Ultraviolence "until my record got leaked last week, 'cause my life is like completely invaded. But I guess I could just put them on and see what happens" leaving the fate of the song on the album uncertain. I don't really know what to put on the record. When " Black Beauty" leaked, Del Rey said "I do feel discouraged, yeah. In interviews around this time, Del Rey talked about the development of her album, playing tracks, such as " Black Beauty" and describing the album as dark and spiritual. She stated that she had been recording in Santa Monica, California to finish the record. She was photographed in a recording studio on Januin Los Angeles, California. Del Rey presumably began working on her second studio effort around this time. After having commercial success with her first major-label album, Born to Die, Del Rey re-released it accompanied by a standalone EP, Paradise, in late 2012.
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