Lily Allen announces surprise new album ‘West End Girl’
“The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before,” the singer explained of her new album, out this week
Lily Allen has announced details of a surprise new album set to be released this week.
The 14-track West End Girl will be released on Friday, October 24 and is her first for seven years.
The album was written across 10 days in Los Angeles alongside her collaborator Blue May.
“I’m nervous”, Allen said of the new record. “The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before – certainly not over the course of a whole album. 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…….”
See the album’s artwork below.
Allen’s last record came in 2018’s No Shame, which featured the likes of UK rap royalty Giggs on ‘Trigger Bang’ and Afrobeats superstar Burna Boy on ‘Your Choice’.