Lily Allen Announces First New Album in Seven Years, ‘West End Girl’
Lilly Allen’s fifth album is the followup to 2018’s No Shame.
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Seven years on since her last album, Lily Allen is set to drop her fifth album, West End Girl, this Friday 24 October via BMG.
The surprise album features 14 tracks written by Allen with her musical director Blue May. The two executive produced the record alongside Seb Chew and Kito and recorded over ten days in Los Angeles, with addiontal studio sessions in London and New York.
“I’m nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before—certainly not over the course of a whole album,” Allen said in a press release.
“I’ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now. At the same time, I’ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do, so the record is a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be. In that respect I think it’s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It’s a story…”
Check out the album cover art by Spanish artist Nieves González below.
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While Allen hasn’t expelcitly discussed the lyrcial content of West End Girl, considering her prevously confessional style songs, there is a fair chance Allen will touch on her marriage breakdown to Hollywood actor David Harbour and recent mental health issues.
Since the release of Allen’s last record, 2018’s No Shame, the singer and actor has performed sparodically, appeared in several West End London theatre productions and co-hosted the podcast Miss Me? alongside her good freind Miquita Oliver.
West End Gril by Lily Allen arrives Friday 25 October via BGM. Pre-save here.
