Lily Allen announces first album in seven years, West End Girl
Lily Allen has returned with the announcement of her her fifth studio album, West End Girl, marking her first full-length release in seven years.
West End Girl is set to follow her 2006 debut, Alright, Still, It’s Not Me, It’s You, her Mercury Prize-nominated 2018 album, No Shame, and her memoir, My Thoughts Exactly.
“I’m nervous”, Lily Allen reveals. “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.......”
Following her 2018 album, Allen herself turned to new stages and formats, starring in sold-out runs of 2:22 A Ghost Story and The Pillowman plus a recent starring role in a new adaptation of Ibsen’s devastating domestic tragedy, Jedda Gabler’. She also became the co-host of the award-winning podcast, Miss Me, with her best friend Miquita Oliver.
West End Girl is set to be released on 24 October via BMG, and is available to pre-order now.
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